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Author : Judith Janda Presnall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560066392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Life on Alcatraz written by Judith Janda Presnall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison, and the island's future roles.
Author : Jim Quillen
Publisher : Golden Gate National Park Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780962520617
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Alcatraz from Inside written by Jim Quillen and published by Golden Gate National Park Assn. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating autobiographical account, Jim Quillen tells the amazing story of his decade incarcerated in America's most infamous prison -- how he got there, how he stayed alive inside, and, most important, how he found the inspiration and courage to get out.
Author : Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802795773
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Children of Alcatraz written by Claire Rudolf Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the life of the children who grew up on this infamous island with their families throughout its long and diverse history as a military prison, maximum security prison, and site of a Native American uprising, enhanced with period photos, interviews, and first-hand accounts.
Author : Jim Quillen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473518482
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Inside Alcatraz written by Jim Quillen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt.
Author : George H. Gregory
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263739
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Alcatraz Screw written by George H. Gregory and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison at Sandstone, Minnesota. A few years later he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Badly wounded at Iwo Jima, he returned to Sandstone after a long rehabilitation. When the Bureau of Prisons closed Sandstone in 1947, Gregory was transferred to Alcatraz, which had been a federal penitentiary since 1934. For the next fifteen years, Gregory worked on “The Rock.” He takes the reader along on a correctional officer’s tour of duty, showing what it was like to pull a lonely, tedious night of sentry duty in the Road Tower, or witness illicit transactions in the clothing room, or forcibly quell a riot in the cell blocks. Gregory provides an insider’s account of the tenures of all four of Alcatraz’s wardens and their sometimes contradictory approaches to administering the institution. He knew and regularly interacted with such legendary inmates as Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Without glamorizing or demonizing either the staff or the convicts, Alcatraz Screw provides a candid portrayal of corruption, drug abuse, and sexual practices, as well as efforts at reform and unrecorded acts of kindness. Various incidents in the memoir convey the fear, hatred, frustration, boredom, and unavoidable tension of being incarcerated. With the inclusion of maps and diagrams of Alcatraz Island, as well as photographs of inmates, officers, and the prison itself, this book offers insight into life at the notorious Alcatraz from an unprecedented perspective.
Author : Robert Victor Luke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578082950
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Entombed in Alcatraz written by Robert Victor Luke and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with one man on his journey through imprisonment in Alcatraz, and other prisons. He also discusses his early life and the 51 years since his release. 126 pp.
Author : Theresa Breslin
Publisher : Gyldendal Uddannelse
ISBN 13 : 9788702054828
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Prisoner in Alcatraz written by Theresa Breslin and published by Gyldendal Uddannelse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Bland Smith
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632899450
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Gardener of Alcatraz written by Emma Bland Smith and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prisoner gardens his way to freedom in this inspiring picture-book biography. When Elliott Michener was locked away in Alcatraz for counterfeiting, he was determined to defy the odds and bust out. But when he got a job tending the prison garden, a funny thing happened. He found new interests and skills--and a sense of dignity and fulfillment. Elliott transformed Alcatraz Island, and the island transformed him. Told with empathy and a storyteller's flair, Elliott's story is funny, touching, and unexpectedly relevant. Back matter about the history of Alcatraz and the US prison system today invites meaningful discussion.
Author : Stephen Person
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1936088754
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Ghostly Alcatraz Island written by Stephen Person and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a nearly escape-proof prison located on a small island in San Francisco Bay. America’s most dangerous criminals were imprisoned there and endured harsh conditions, including solitary confinement in dark cells. Though the penitentiary was shut down in 1963, visitors have reported hearing mysterious cries from empty cells and seeing ghostly figures that suddenly vanished! Have the troubled spirits of former inmates been sentenced to haunt Alcatraz forever? An exciting narrative format brings the hair-raising history of Alcatraz to life, while providing plenty of creepy details to satisfy young horror fans. Chilling photos and clear, age-appropriate text will keep readers turning the pages to learn more about Alcatraz’s spooky prison.
Author : Leon W. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671743635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Rock Hard written by Leon W. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography of a former Alcatraz inmate is a harrowing, brutally honest account of one man's years on "The Rock". From 1958 to 1962, Whitey Thompson was one of Alcatraz's last inmates, released four months before the prison was closed down as obsolete and inhumane. 8-page insert.
Author : Michael Esslinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970461469
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Alcatraz written by Michael Esslinger and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALCATRAZ: the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed "Machine Gun" Kelly into a model of decorum. It took the birds away from the Birdman of Alcatraz.This mammoth reference navigates the island's history through rarely seen documents, interviews and hundreds of pages of historic photographs. Author interviews range from men such as legendary FBI fugitive James Whitey Bulger; Dale Stamphill, a principle in the 1938 escape with Doc Barker and Henry Young; to Atom Spy Morton Sobell, the co-defendant of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Michael Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates, and life inside the most infamous prison in American History. His research included hundreds of hours examining actual Alcatraz inmate case files (including rare original documents from Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and over a hundred others) exploring the prison grounds from the rooftop to the waterfront to help retrace events, escape routes, in addition to conducting various interviews with former inmates and guards. His study has resulted in detailed accounts of all the recorded escape attempts including the Battle of Alcatraz. A detailed account of the 1962 escape of Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers provides rare insight extracted through photos, and over 1,700 pages of FBI and Bureau of Prisons investigative notes. Detailed narratives of Alcatraz's most notable inmates who include Robert Stroud (Birdman of Alcatraz), Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Frank Morris, the Anglin Brothers, Doc Barker, Joe Cretzer, Bernard Coy, Miran Thompson, Sam Shockley, and many-many others. Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years, is a comprehensive reference on the history of Alcatraz and contains one of the most comprehensive archives of inmate and prison life photographs (over 1,000).
Author : Charlie Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578552446
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Hard Time written by Charlie Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HARD TIME: THE LIFE OF AN INCORRIGIBLE ON ALCATRAZ The true story of Charlie Hopkins #1186 one of the last surviving inmates of Alcatraz Penitentiary. "My friend and fellow alumni Charlie Hopkins and I both graduated from America's Top Crime School- Charlie was a better student than I- He's still free!" -James "Whitey" Bulger, #1428 AZ What if one could travel back in time and interview one of the 1500 or so hardened criminals that had served time at Alcatraz Penitentiary before it was permanently closed in 1963? Even if one could do such an impossible thing, what exactly would one ask a man who had rubbed shoulders with some of the most notorious gangsters, murderers, and thieves of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s? How would the conversation go when speaking to a close friend of "Creepy" Al Karpis, the "Birdman of Alcatraz" Robert Stroud, and Whitey Bulger. Now, thanks to author Don DeNevi, for the first time one does not need a time machine to recapture the first hand eyewitness accounts of one man's life on Alcatraz. Alcatraz inmate #1186 was Charles Edward Hopkins and Mr. Hopkins was no ordinary inmate. Not only did he serve time with the Anglin brothers who made the only successful escape from Alcatraz but he was well acquainted with notorious crime boss "Bumpy" Johnson and the legendary Italian mafia boss Vito Genevese and many other infamous Alcatraz inmates. Early in his prison career Charlie was clinically pronounced "psychotic" and "incorrigible" and was sent to Alcatraz. After serving his time, Hopkins disappeared into history before re-emerging in recent years as the pen pal of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Never before has Charlie's full story been captured and shared with the public. This is his true story as told in 1999 to author Don DeNevi and recently reviewed by him to ensure maximum historical accuracy. Mr. Hopkins is still alive and is approaching 88 years old and is estimated to be one of the last 5 or 6 remaining inmates that served Hard Time in Alcatraz before its closing in 1963. No matter what you have read or think you know about Alcatraz, you may be certain of one thing, you have never heard a story like this.
Author : Nico Medina
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0448488833
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Where Is Alcatraz? written by Nico Medina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from the ordinary and break into Alcatraz, America's most famous prison! The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascinated visitors, from the Native American tribes who believed it was home to evil spirits to the Spanish explorers who discovered the island. In modern times, it was a federal prison for only 29 years, but now draws over a million visitors each year. Learn the history of America's most famous prison, from its initial construction as a fort in the 1800s, to its most famous residents such as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Where Is Alcatraz? also chronicles some of the most exciting escape attempts—even one that involved chipping through stone with spoons and constructing rafts out of raincoats!
Author : Ann Burrows Eib
Publisher : Golden Gate National Parks Association
ISBN 13 : 9781932519150
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Alcatraz Bride written by Ann Burrows Eib and published by Golden Gate National Parks Association. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifteen-year-old Ann Burrows was excited when she found out that her family would be moving to California's Alcatraz Island. She had visions of sunny beaches and warm breezes - a place much different from her Kansas City, Missouri, home town. Later, romance blossomed with a young man from San Francisco, when the couple was married on the island, a chapter in a family's personal history became the subject of international news stories. This is a snapshot of a moment in time (the 1950s), of the infamous island as a home, not a prison. Of coming of age on the Rock" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Author : Jim Albright
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452065012
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Last Guard Out written by Jim Albright and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz. I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required me to uproot my wife Cathy and young son Kenny from Colorado to California. As we approached San Francisco via of the Oakland Bay Bridge we got our first foreboding glance of Alcatraz Island with a dense circle of fog surrounding it. A strange sense of dread came over me. I looked at our young son asleep in the back seat, then turned to my wife next to me and I whispered "What The Hell Did We Do". After moving on to Alcatraz our thought on Island life quickly changed and we decided not to apply for a transfer out, which consequently left us there until the Island closed in March of 1963. Because of our newly born daughters foot problem they left us there until June of 1963 making me The Last Guard Out.
Author : Jay Stuller
Publisher : Golden Gate National Parks Association
ISBN 13 : 9781883869359
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Alcatraz, the Prison written by Jay Stuller and published by Golden Gate National Parks Association. This book was released on 1998 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In words and photographs, this book captures the most famous -- or infamous -- aspect of the island's history, its years as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. Called variously "Uncle Sam's Devil's Island, " "Hellcatraz, " and other fearsome names, Alcatraz had a reputation among convicts as the prison of last resort.
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080321779X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. In this detailed examination of the takeover, Troy R. Johnson tells the story of those who organized the occupation and those who participated, some by living on the island and others by soliciting donations of money, food, water, clothing, and other necessities. Johnson documents the unrest in the Bay Area urban Indian population that helped spur the takeover and draws on interviews with those involved to describe everyday life on Alcatraz during the nineteen-month occupation. In describing the federal government?s reactions as Americans rallied in support of the Indians, he turns to federal government archives and Nixon administration files. The book is a must-read for historians and others interested in the civil rights era, Native American history, and contemporary American Indian issues.
