This book represents a cross section of prison life as it was lived during the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s. It is an abstract of Patterson's thirty years of experience in a variety of correctional institutions in Colorado
This is a story of a prison riot -- the most violent in terms of loss of life of the first seven decades of the 20th century. The time: October 3, 1929. The place: The Colorado State Penitentiary, Cañon City, Colorado.
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