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. 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 -- Resistance And Adaptation -- Outlaws Among Outlaws -- Celebrity Prisoners -- Return To The Free World -- Lessons From Alcatraz For Supermax Prisons. David Ward ; With Gene Kassebaum. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 467-522) And Index.

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David A. Ward; with Gene G. Kassebaum

United States, United States of America

Berkeley, California, 2008

Berkeley, California, 2009

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类型: 图书

出版日期: 2009

出版社: University of California Press

摘要: ... hole in the rock : the first escape attempts -- Alcatraz on trial -- The war years -- The battle...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Al Capone, George ''Machine Gun'' Kelly, Alvin Karpis, ''Dock'' Barker--these were just a few of the legendary ''public enemies'' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of ''The Rock.'' Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? What provoked the protests and strikes? How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts? And what happened when these ''habitual, incorrigible'' convicts were finally released? By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world, Ward also raises timely questions about today's supermax prisons.
Review ''Enjoyable as well as informative. Anyone who has read it is unlikely to look upon the Rock quite the same way ever again.''-- San Francisco Chronicle
''Alcatraz, as David Ward has re-created it, is irresistible to read about.''-- California Lawyer
''Alcatraz: The Gangster Years deserves a place in the library of anyone or institution.''-- California Historian
From the Inside Flap ''Ward has collected the most impressive documentation anywhere on the workings of a prison. A unique and wonderful work of sociology and history.''--Howard Becker, author of Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance and Art Worlds
''This groundbreaking history of the country's most notorious prison is the first to give an in-depth analysis of the interaction between the guards and the prisoners. Ward captures the Alcatraz experience with the accuracy of someone who has practically been there and lays to rest many of the myths that have grown up around the prison. No longer will the story-tellers be able to describe the inmates as 'the worst of the worst' without qualification. Their individual stories come alive as the author records the varied life experiences that brought them to Alcatraz and describes their coping mechanisms. A unique and fascinating study.''--Morton Sobell, Alcatraz Inmate #AZ699 1950-1963, author of On Doing Time

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
Resistance and adaptation
Outlaws among outlaws : individual resisters
Celebrity prisoners
Return to the free world
Lessons from alcatraz for "supermax" prisons.

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