Inside Alcatraz : my time on the Rock /
by Quillen, Jim.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Arrow Books, 2015Description: 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781784750664 (pbk.) :; 1784750662 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 365.9794 QUISubject(s): Quillen, Jim -- Imprisonment | United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California | Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History | Crime | CrimeSummary: Jim Quillen was an inmate at USP Alcatraz, and his narrative is an honest, unadorned look at the life that led him to prison and the prison system of the 1940s and '50s. It is also a reflection of freedom, how it feels to lose it, and what a person will do to attain it.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Originally published: San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 1991.
Jim Quillen was an inmate at USP Alcatraz, and his narrative is an honest, unadorned look at the life that led him to prison and the prison system of the 1940s and '50s. It is also a reflection of freedom, how it feels to lose it, and what a person will do to attain it.
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