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ALCATRAZ. A HISTORY OF THE PENITENTIARY YEARS
ESSLINGER MICHA
- Editorial
- INGRAM
- Año edición
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-0-9704614-6-9
- Encuadernación
- Rústica
- Páginas
- 610
- Idioma
- Castellano
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. When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line. Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but it was also said to be virtually escape-proof. The island was a natural fortress, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait of freezing water and deadly currents. This prison was the U.S. government s drastic answer to the lawlessness unleashed under Prohibition, which continued throughout the Roaring Twenties and into the teeth of the Great Depression. Alcatraz, with its damp cold and austere isolation, its rigid discipline and strict rule of silence, was as tough as the criminals that were sent there, and by the ti