Escape From Alcatraz
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781580086783
Subjects: Prisons; True Crime / Espionage; Travel Guides - U.S; Social Science; Sociology; USA; United States - State & Local - West; General; Penology; Criminology; United States Penitentiary, Al; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
First sentence: JANUARY 14, 1960, A THURSDAY, broke dismal and drizzly over the San Francisco Bay region.
Description: Traces the history of Alcatraz from a Spanish fort to a maximum-security prison that housed some of the most notorious criminals in America including Al Capone; and examines the fourteen attempts to escape from the island.