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1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits |
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Part I, Alcatraz from 1934 to 1948. The federal government's war on "public enemies" -- A new form of imprisonment -- Selecting the "worst of the worst" -- The program -- Organized resistance : a regime tested -- Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts -- Alcatraz on trial -- The war years -- The battle of Alcatraz -- Part II, Life on the rock for resisters and public enemies. Resistance and adaptation -- Outlaws among outlaws -- Celebrity prisoners -- Part III, Alcatraz as as experiment in penal policy. Return to the free world -- Lessons from Alcatraz for supermax prisons. |
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9780520942981 (electronic bk.) |
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0520942981 (electronic bk.) |
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0520256077 |
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9780520256071 |
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9786612772481 |
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