Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock - Hardcover

Quillen, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780894015 ISBN 13: 9781780894010

Verlag: Century, 2015

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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.

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I was engulfed with the realisation that I was no longer a person, but instead AZ586, a criminal who had been sentenced to serve forty-five years in the federal penal system.

It was 1942, and twenty-two-year-old Jim Quillen was on the run from San Quentin prison, where he’d been serving eighteen months for armed robbery. He thought he’d made a lucky escape - until he was caught and sentenced to forty-five years in the federal prison system, including ten years at the infamous Alcatraz.

Inside Alcatraz tells the story of the brutality and extreme regimentation that were a part of daily life for the inmates of the island prison. They nicknamed it ‘Hellcatraz’, and Jim was about to find out why. He lived through it all, from solitary confinement and cramped, lonely cells to meeting Bob ‘the Birdman’ Stroud, and surviving the forty-six-hour bloody riot known as the Battle of Alcatraz.

In this moving memoir, Jim reflects on the ten hard years he spent on the island. He tells us of the hardships he suffered and the friendships he made on his long journey from desperation to redemption.

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• Verlag: Century
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780894015
• ISBN 13: 9781780894010
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384