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Alcatraz: the gangster years/

Ward, David A.

Alcatraz: the gangster years/ David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum. - Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. - xxvii, 548 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-522) and index.

Part I. Alcatraz from 1934 to 1948

1. The Federal Government's War on Public Enemies
2. A New Form of Imprisonment
3. Selecting the "Worst of the Worst"
4. The "Program"
5. Organized Resistance: A Regime Tested
6. Finding a Hole in the Rock: The First Escape Attempts
7. Alcatraz on Trial
8. The War Years
9. The Battle of Alcatraz

Part II. Life on the Rock For Resisters and Public Enemies

10. Resistance and Adaptation
11. Outlaws among Outlaws: Individual Resisters
12. Celebrity Prisoners
Part III. Alcatraz as an Experiment in Penal Policy
13. Return to the Free World
14. Lessons from Alcatraz for "Supermax" Prisons

ISBN: 9780520256071 (alk. paper) 0520256077 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prisons--History.--California--Alcatraz Island

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)--History.

Dewey Class. No.: 365.979461 / WAR/A