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Author Ward, David A.
Title Alcatraz : the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum.
Publication Info Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.



Descript 1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits
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Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520256077
9780520256071
Standard no. 9786612772481
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Author Ward, David A.
Subject United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History.
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History.
Alt author Kassebaum, Gene G.
Descript 1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Bibliography
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520256077
9780520256071
Standard no. 9786612772481
Author Ward, David A.
Subject United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History.
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History.
Alt author Kassebaum, Gene G.

Subject United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History.
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Bibliography
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Kassebaum, Gene G.
ISBN 9780520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520942981 (electronic bk.)
0520256077
9780520256071
Standard no. 9786612772481

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