Eleven Days in Hell
Subtitle: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas (Crime and Criminal Justice)
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781574411805
Subjects: Prisons; True crime; c 1970 to c 1980; Penology; Hostage negotiations; d. 1974; Social Science; History - U.S.; Sociology; Texas; Prison riots; United States - State & Local - South; Carrasco, Fred,; Dept. of Corrections; Huntsville; Huntsville Unit; Prison violence
First sentence: From one o'clock on the white-hot afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o'clock on the balmy, moonlit night of August 3, 1974, it was-without a doubt-eleven days in hell inside the Walls Unit of the Huntsville State Prison in east Texas.