Inside Alcatraz - My Time on the Rock

Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Quillen, Quillen Jim
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781784750664
• ISBN: 978-1-78475-066-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; San Francisco, True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, c 1940 to c 1949, Penology and punishment, Prisons, C 1945 To C 1960, Offenders