Fire in the Big House - AmericaÆs Deadliest Prison Disaster

Informationen zum Autor Mitchel P. Roth is professor of criminal justice and criminology at Sam Houston State University. The author of many books, he has appeared or been featured on the Travel Channel, CNN, Fox, Al Jazeera, the History Channel, PBS, and other media programs. He is currently writing a history of the world's prison gangs. Klappentext Roth explores the lives of prisoners and others as well as the political and social circumstances of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire in this first comprehensive account of a tragedy whose circumstances-violent unrest, overcrowding, poorly trained and underpaid guards, unsanitary conditions, inadequate food-will be familiar to prison watchdogs today. Zusammenfassung Roth explores the lives of prisoners and others as well as the political and social circumstances of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire in this first comprehensive account of a tragedy whose circumstances-violent unrest, overcrowding, poorly trained and underpaid guards, unsanitary conditions, inadequate food-will be familiar to prison watchdogs today.

Product details

• Authors: Mitchel P. Roth
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780821423837
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2383-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, USA Mittlerer Westen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)