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Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
2009, University of California Press
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Alcatraz: the gangster years
2009, University of California Press
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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