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Book They Called Me  Doc of the New Alcatraz

Download or read book They Called Me Doc of the New Alcatraz written by Kenneth Kohutek Ph.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book described the experiences of a psychology intern and subsequent psychologist in a maximum-security federal penitentiary. It discussed experiences with those who were incarcerated, staff, as well as a physical description of the edifice where these events occurred. Experiences included a hostage situation, assaults, riots, attempted prison escapes, and a contract placed on the author. It described life in a prison which served as the maximum-security facility between the years of Alcatraz and the Supermax Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

Book They Called Me  Doc of the New Alcatraz

Download or read book They Called Me Doc of the New Alcatraz written by Kenneth Kohutek, PH D and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book described the experiences of a psychology intern and subsequent psychologist in a maximum-security federal penitentiary. It discussed experiences with those who were incarcerated, staff, as well as a physical description of the edifice where these events occurred. Experiences included a hostage situation, assaults, riots, attempted prison escapes, and a contract placed on the author. It described life in a prison which served as the maximum-security facility between the years of Alcatraz and the Supermax Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

Book They Called Me Doc of the New Alcatraz

Download or read book They Called Me Doc of the New Alcatraz written by Kenneth J. Kohutek and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for a written tour of the penitentiary where I worked for five and one-half years. During the tour we will visit the closed therapeutic community, segregation units, Control Unit, camp, hospital, and the corridor on which five of the eight cell blocks opened. I will introduce several inmates, administrators, and correctional staff. All names were changed to protect them and their family's privacy. These chapters will provide a glimpse of what was a life changing experience for me. There were those who spent more time working in this or similar situations. However, I was not prepared for what was behind the grills leading to the corridors from which these stories originated. I was too young or naive to stay any longer. I am blessed to have had the opportunity to experience firsthand what most people view on television or the internet.

Book Doctor In The Swim

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Gordon
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2012-09-30
  • ISBN : 0755131061
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Doctor In The Swim written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Grimsdyke was pleased to sit next to the luscious Lucy on a flight. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - despite Anemone waiting back home! As if juggling two women wasn't enough, the Jellybone sisters then enter the scene with a troupe of female contortionists. Grimsdyke falls headlong into a series of hilarious mishaps.

Book  MurderTrending

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gretchen McNeil
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2018-08-07
  • ISBN : 1368014852
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book MurderTrending written by Gretchen McNeil and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: @doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last? @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA! @EltonJohnForevzz: Me? I think Dee's innocent. And I hope she can survive. WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0. When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is one thing, but Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Can Dee and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, prove she's innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? Or will The Postman's cast of executioners kill them off one by one?

Book The Ghost of Alcatraz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricardo Lebrija
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2016-06-30
  • ISBN : 1524508519
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Ghost of Alcatraz written by Ricardo Lebrija and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950s New York City, Jake Strummer lives an average life until one day a twist of faith changes everything and sends Jake on a downward spiral. He finds himself in the middle of one of the most gruesome crime scenes ever recorded. He gets arrested, charged with the crime, trialed, and convicted of twenty-two murders, murders he has no recollection of ever having committed. He is sentenced to life in solitary isolation to be carried out at a maximum-security prison in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, on the island of Alcatraz. There he plunges into oblivion, where he suffers a gruesome transformation fueled by loneliness, depression, darkness, and despair into this atrocity other inmates call the ghost of Alcatraz. From the gates of hell, Jake Strummer ascends to redemption aided by an unlikely friend. He finds love, happiness, and peace, and after a race against time, he commits the ultimate sacrifice. The Ghost of Alcatraz is a tale of deliverance. The penance of the soul to define what's human is proof that happiness is within all of us even in the worst of circumstances.

Book The Last Jewish Gangster  The Middle Years

Download or read book The Last Jewish Gangster The Middle Years written by David Larson and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment of this saga of gangland lore follows gregarious gangster, Michael Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world’s most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother’s counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect. Once he’s released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts back into a world of crime. He gets Sammy “the Bull” Gravano to join his crew to pull major heists like kidnapping drug lords for million-dollar ransoms, and robbing cop bag men. To evade the law, he goes to Europe and ends up in Israel where he works on a Kibbutz, touching the hem of his Jewish heritage. Hardy devolves further into a gangster’s life when he returns to Brooklyn, running a finger of the Mob’s Five-Fingers International Car Theft Ring, participating in a stolen airline ticket scam, and doing fourteen hits for the Mob, still hoping his mother will take notice. When she gets busted for the car theft ring, she turns him in to reduce her time. Crushed by his mother’s callous self-interest, Hardy ends up cutting a deal with Rudy Giuliani to nab a dirty cop to reduce his time and negotiate his place in the witness protection program. Relocating to LA under an alias, it doesn’t take long for Hardy to land a gig as muscle for a Hollywood studio and meet his future wife, a sex worker who stole from his mother. The lines between love and revenge begin to blur.

Book    Aid and Comfort

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Mark Holzer
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-08-13
  • ISBN : 1476600473
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Aid and Comfort written by Henry Mark Holzer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro–North Vietnamese, anti–American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the recipient of countless awards, and remained an honored American icon. This work investigates Fonda’s activities in North Vietnam and argues that she could have been indicted for treason, that there would have been enough evidence to take the case to a jury, that she could have been convicted, and that a conviction probably would have been upheld on appeal. It also considers Fonda’s early life and the effect it had on her behavior and beliefs in her later years, her audience of American POWs who were forced by the Vietnamese to listen to her broadcasts condemning them as war criminals, her arrival in Vietnam and how it was viewed by American servicemen and civilians, the crime of treason throughout history, and the only Congressional inquiry into her actions, which resulted in the government’s decision to take no legal action against her. Texts of Fonda’s radio broadcasts to American servicemen comprise the appendix.

Book Moon Over Alcatraz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Yager Delagrange
  • Publisher : Maximus Books
  • Release : 2021-01-03
  • ISBN : 1954395051
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Moon Over Alcatraz written by Patricia Yager Delagrange and published by Maximus Books. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandy Chambers was looking forward to the birth of her first child. She and Weston move from San Francisco to the small town of Alameda to start a family, she's writing her second book, and Weston has a fantastic job working on the Oakland/San Francisco Bay project. Having this baby would make her already wonderful life perfect. But when the baby dies after a difficult birth, Brandy's perfect life blows up in her face. Stricken with grief, she and Weston pull apart. This new distance leads them both to disaster. Not until a chance encounter with her high school friend, Edward Barnes, does Brandy pull herself together. Brandy and Weston agree to recommit to each other, striving to forgive infidelity and recreate their previous existence. Everything is once again going according to plan - until Brandy discovers she's pregnant. While she struggles to cope with this new obstacle, Edward Barnes returns to town and discovers she's having a baby, while Weston is torn between his love for his wife and his anger at her betrayal. Can Brandy manage to keep her marriage to Weston together? Will Edward be a part of Brandy's life if she and Weston separate?

Book Alcatraz Screw

    Book Details:
  • Author : George H. Gregory
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 2013-12-17
  • ISBN : 0826263739
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Alcatraz Screw written by George H. Gregory and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison at Sandstone, Minnesota. A few years later he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Badly wounded at Iwo Jima, he returned to Sandstone after a long rehabilitation. When the Bureau of Prisons closed Sandstone in 1947, Gregory was transferred to Alcatraz, which had been a federal penitentiary since 1934. For the next fifteen years, Gregory worked on “The Rock.” He takes the reader along on a correctional officer’s tour of duty, showing what it was like to pull a lonely, tedious night of sentry duty in the Road Tower, or witness illicit transactions in the clothing room, or forcibly quell a riot in the cell blocks. Gregory provides an insider’s account of the tenures of all four of Alcatraz’s wardens and their sometimes contradictory approaches to administering the institution. He knew and regularly interacted with such legendary inmates as Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Without glamorizing or demonizing either the staff or the convicts, Alcatraz Screw provides a candid portrayal of corruption, drug abuse, and sexual practices, as well as efforts at reform and unrecorded acts of kindness. Various incidents in the memoir convey the fear, hatred, frustration, boredom, and unavoidable tension of being incarcerated. With the inclusion of maps and diagrams of Alcatraz Island, as well as photographs of inmates, officers, and the prison itself, this book offers insight into life at the notorious Alcatraz from an unprecedented perspective.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985-05-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-05-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Truth at Last

Download or read book Truth at Last written by John Larry Ray and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., argues that convicted killer James Earl Ray did not act alone, offers a look at Ray's life, his encounters with the feds and the mob, and the crime itself.

Book MAX BRAND Premium Collection  29 Western Classics   Adventure Tales   Including The Dan Barry Series   The Ronicky Doone Trilogy

Download or read book MAX BRAND Premium Collection 29 Western Classics Adventure Tales Including The Dan Barry Series The Ronicky Doone Trilogy written by Max Brand and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 4310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "MAX BRAND Premium Collection: 29 Western Classics & Adventure Tales - Including The Dan Barry Series & The Ronicky Doone Trilogy" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Brand also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films. Table of Contents: The Dan Barry Trilogy The Untamed The Night Horseman The Seventh Man The Ronicky Doone Trilogy Ronicky Doone Ronicky Doone's Treasure Ronicky Doone's Reward Other Novels Above the Law Harrigan! Trailin'! Riders of the Silences Crossroads The Man Who Forgot Christmas Black Jack The Cure of Silver Cañon Donnegan Bull Hunter Jerico's Garrison Finish The Long, Long Trail Way of the Lawless Alcatraz The Garden of Eden The Power of Prayer The Rangeland Avenger Wild Freedom Short Stories John Ovington Returns That Receding Brow Hole-In-The-Wall Barrett The Ghost Out of the Dark

Book The Confessions of Al Capone

Download or read book The Confessions of Al Capone written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple award-winner Loren D. Estleman has produced a major biographical novel on the infamous Mobster known as Scarface, rigorously researched and deftly nuanced to offer an intimate portrait of the gangster whose terrible crimes and larger-than-life persona have both fascinated and appalled the world for nearly a century; whose legacy is still widely debated; and whose brutally ambitious career in the Mafia continues to inspire filmmakers and writers to plumb its excesses and its contradictions. In 1944, after Al Capone has been released from prison, J. Edgar Hoover assigns an FBI junior agent to insinuate himself into Capone's life and gain his trust so that Hoover can nail as many of Capone's Mob confederates as possible. Capone, suffering from the neurological effects of syphilis, is alternately lucid, full of the passion and energy that fueled his rise to the pinnacle of American crime...and rambling or ranting, the broken shell of a man released from prison so he could die at home with his family. With the superb narrative gifts honed in dozens of novels, Estleman has captured the essence of this American icon as never before. With subtly nuanced portrayals of those in Capone's circle—his underrated wife Mae Capone, members of the Chicago Outfit including the deadly Frank Nitti—as well as his nemesis, J. Edgar Hoover, Hoover's secretary Helen Gandy and others, The Confessions of Al Capone is a major literary achievement. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Frostbite

Download or read book Frostbite written by Joshua Williamson and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From writer Joshua Williamson (JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD) and artist Jason Shawn Alexander (BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY) comes a stunning science fiction saga of subzero survival in FROSTBITE! In the arctic wilderness of post-apocalyptic America, death comes in many formsÑbut none is worse than the terrifying plague that freezes its victims from the inside out. They call it frostbite, and it is slowly, inexorably infecting the struggling remnants of humanity. Frostbite has no vaccine, no immunity, and no cure. Until now. In snowbound Mexico City, Dr. Henry Bonham and his daughter, Victoria, have found the key to destroying the disease. In order to make their theoretical cure a reality, however, they have to travel 2,000 treacherous miles to a secret government installation on Alcatraz Island. Enter Keaton, captain of the cross-country cargo hauler Icebreaker, and her hard-bitten mercenary crew. TheyÕve spent years learning how to survive on the ice, but theyÕve never before gone on a run with such high stakesÑor with such determined enemies. Will these unlikely saviors make it across the frozen wasteland, defeat the relentless forces gunning for their lives, and bring warmth to the world? Or will frostbite continue to consume all life in its icy jaws? Discover the shocking answers in FROSTBITE. Collects FROSTBITE #1-6.

Book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Book Standing in the Rainbow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fannie Flagg
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2004-08-03
  • ISBN : 0345478630
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Standing in the Rainbow written by Fannie Flagg and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."