NCJ Number
147126
Date Published
1992
Length
456 pages
Annotation
Based on interviews, prison and court records, newspaper accounts, and personal observations, this author describes life inside the Leavenworth Federal penitentiary between July 1987 and July 1989.
Abstract
The book focuses on several key players inside the facility. They include an inmate described as "a sexual predator with a talent for murder," an inmate gang leader, the prison warden, an inmate classified as a sociopath, the "tough cop" guard with the authority to send inmates to solitary confinement, and a bank robber with a criminal record dating from when he was 8 years old and a devotion to taking care of the cats within the prison walls. This book attempts to delve the depths of prison culture in the oldest maximum- security prison in the U.S.