Description: Old Joliet Prison, Illinois, Landmarks, Paperback 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.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467147361
Book Title: Old Joliet Prison : When Convicts Wore Stripes
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Amy Steidinger
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Sociology / General, Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, Criminals & Outlaws
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, Social Science
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
