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Old Joliet Prison: When Convicts Wore Stripes
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Artikel-Nr:
9781540245465
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.11.2020
Seiten:
162
Autor:
Amy Kinzer Steidinger
Gewicht:
386 g
Format:
229x152x11 mm
Serie:
Landmarks
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In 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.