Rock Hard

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HE DID HARD TIME IN THE HARDEST
PRISON IN AMERICA. NOW, HERE'S
THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF
HIS LIFE BEHIND BARS.
Alcatraz. For thirty years, it was the last stop in the Federal
penitentiary pipeline, an escape-proof island fortress of stone
and steel reserved for the most notorious and hardened
criminals in the system. Men like Al Capone, George
"Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, the brilliant but sadistic
"Birdman of Alcatraz"—and Leon "Whitey" Thompson.
From 1958 to 1962, Whitey Thompson was one of Alcatraz's
last inmates, released four months before the prison was
closed down as obsolete and inhumane. In ROCK HARD, he
gives us a raw, shocking look inside America's infamous
Devil's Island. It was a world of swift and savage justice,
meted out by inmate and guard alike a world where a bar
of soap and a sock could be turned into an instrument of
terror, where violence could erupt over a pack of cigarettes,
and where a word spoken out of place could result in a... Tovább

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HE DID HARD TIME IN THE HARDEST
PRISON IN AMERICA. NOW, HERE'S
THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF
HIS LIFE BEHIND BARS.
Alcatraz. For thirty years, it was the last stop in the Federal
penitentiary pipeline, an escape-proof island fortress of stone
and steel reserved for the most notorious and hardened
criminals in the system. Men like Al Capone, George
"Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, the brilliant but sadistic
"Birdman of Alcatraz"—and Leon "Whitey" Thompson.
From 1958 to 1962, Whitey Thompson was one of Alcatraz's
last inmates, released four months before the prison was
closed down as obsolete and inhumane. In ROCK HARD, he
gives us a raw, shocking look inside America's infamous
Devil's Island. It was a world of swift and savage justice,
meted out by inmate and guard alike a world where a bar
of soap and a sock could be turned into an instrument of
terror, where violence could erupt over a pack of cigarettes,
and where a word spoken out of place could result in a
sentence of death.
From inside this forsaken rock comes one inmate's story—an
astonishing narrative of visceral impact and volcanic power
that plumbs the depths of a hell on earth.
"In the language of the penitentiary, Whitey was a 'solid con.'.
The stories he tells in this book are related from a distance
most of us can never truly appreciate—the inside
of the joint."—John Martini, Park Historian,
Golden Gate National Recreation Area Vissza