Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13497 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Synopsis
This work includes pull-out boxes: case studies of the criminals, a typical day's regime for inmates, and stories from maximum security prisons gone bad, classic prison jargon. Real-life criminals and their punishment have always fascinated and are enduringly popular. By their nature, maximum security prisons are hidden places. This book reveals and exposes the workings and systems of these places - both official and unofficial. With over 70 pictures, the book takes an all-too-encompassing look at famous prisons from Sing Sing, Alcatraz and Spandau to third world jails.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining, reads like a scrap book
If your interested in high security prisons then this is a mish mash of already published information, along the same themes as adozen other books. There is nothing new in here, but if you`re into this type of book then it is entertaining. It is layed out like a scrapbook,lots of different fonts and news cuttings going on in their. This work includes pull-out boxes: case studies of the criminals, a typical day's regime for inmates, and stories from maximum security prisons gone bad, classic prison jargon. Real-life criminals and their punishment have always fascinated and are enduringly popular. By their nature, maximum security prisons are hidden places. This book reveals and exposes the workings and systems of these places - both official and unofficial. With over 70 pictures, the book takes an all-too-encompassing look at famous prisons from Sing Sing, Alcatraz and Spandau to third world jails. If you like factual stuff then this is okay, Ross Kemp on gangs was probably better than this, and more enlightening, as I said earlier there is nothing new in here.

OKAY

THE BOOK SPEEDS THROUGH PRISONS FROM USA TO KENYA.

LOTS OF PHOTOS - OKAY FOR SOMEONE WITHA SHORT ATTENTION SPAN