The Joliet Prison Post, Volume 1, Issue 6
Author: Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet
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Author: Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy Kinzer Steidinger
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1439671729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1857, convicts began breaking rock to build the walls of the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet, the prison that would later confine them. For a century and a half, thousands of men and women were sentenced to do time in this historic, castle-like fortress on Collins Street. Its bakery fed victims of the Great Chicago Fire, and its locks frustrated pickpockets from the world's fair. Even newspaper-selling sensations like the Lambeth Poisoner, the Haymarket Anarchists, the Marcus Train Robbers and Fainting Bertha became numbers once they passed through the gates. Author Amy Steidinger recovers stories of lunatics and lawmen, counterfeiters and call girls, grave robbers and politicians.
Author: Missouri State Medical Association
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendy Moxley Roe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1467147168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe iron bars of Joliet Prison might once have held John Wayne Gacy, Baby Face Nelson and other notorious inmates as unwilling guests, but their stories now desperately cling to the limestone walls. After 160 years spent crammed with victims of misfortune and agents of mayhem, the grim landmark immortalized in movies like The Blues Brothers is now entirely given over to the ghosts of its past. Follow a singing ghost to the convict cemetery where thousands of unclaimed bodies are said to lie. Listen for the tread of Odette Allen, the warden's wife who was brutally murdered in her bedroom on the second floor. Unlock the gates of Joliet Prison's haunted heritage with Wendy Moxley Roe.
Author: United States. Bureau of Prisons
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 470
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 30
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James B. Jacobs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 022621883X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stateville James B. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, presents the first historical examination of a total prison organization—administrators, guards, prisoners, and special interest groups. Jacobs applies Edward Shils's interpretation of the dynamics of mass society in order to explain the dramatic events of the past quarter century that have permanently altered Stateville's structure. With the extension of civil rights to previously marginal groups such as racial minorities, the poor, and, ultimately, the incarcerated, prisons have moved from society's periphery toward its center. Accordingly Stateville's control mechanisms became less authoritarian and more legalistic and bureaucratic. As prisoners' rights increased, the preogatives of the staff were sharply curtailed. By the early 1970s the administration proved incapable of dealing with politicized gangs, proliferating interest groups, unionized guards, and interventionist courts. In addition to extensive archival research, Jacobs spent many months freely interacting with the prisoners, guards, and administrators at Stateville. His lucid presentation of Stateville's troubled history will provide fascinating reading for a wide audience of concerned readers. ". . . [an] impressive study of a complex social system."—Isidore Silver, Library Journal
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 2218
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