Alcatraz
Subtitle: the gangster years
By: David A. Ward ; with Gene G. Kassebaum.
Contributors: Kassebaum, Gene G.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520256071
Subjects: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.; Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History.; Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The federal government's war on public enemies; title: A new form of imprisonment; title: Selecting the "worst of the worst"; title: The "program"; title: Organized resistance : a regime tested; title: Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts; title: Alcatraz on trial; title: The war years; title: The battle of Alcatraz; title: Resistance and adaptation; title: Outlaws among outlaws : individual resisters; title: Celebrity prisoners; title: Return to the free world; title: Lessons from Alcatraz for "supermax" prisons.