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001 2008021232
003 DLC
005 20080521124600.0
008 080509s2009 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008021232
020 $a9780520256071 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHV9474.A53$bA46 2008
082 00 $a365/.979461$222
100 1 $aWard, David A.
245 10 $aAlcatraz, America's Devil's Island :$bthe gangster years /$cDavid A. Ward ; with Gene G. Kassebaum.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0903
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe federal government's war on public enemies -- A new form of imprisonment -- Selecting the "worst of the worst" -- The "program" -- Organized resistance : a regime tested -- Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts -- Alcatraz on trial -- The war years -- The battle of alcatraz -- Resistance and adaptation -- Outlaws among outlaws : individual resisters -- Celebrity prisoners -- Return to the free world -- Lessons from alcatraz for "supermax" prisons.
610 20 $aUnited States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
650 0 $aPrisons$zCalifornia$zAlcatraz Island$xHistory.
651 0 $aAlcatraz Island (Calif.)$xHistory.
700 1 $aKassebaum, Gene G.