Jacktown: the history of Michigan's first state prison [eBook - hoopla]

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Jacktown: the history of Michigan's first state prison

(2017)

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Arcadia Publishing Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2017

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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN

9781625857941 (electronic bk.) MWT11813223, 1625857942 (electronic bk.) 11813223

LANGUAGE

English

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Steve "Barney" Rudolph, Jim Guerriero, Judy Gail Krasnow

Competing with the likes of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Jackson won the battle to build Michigan's first state prison in 1838. During the era of the "Big House" and industrial growth, the penitentiary's on-site factories and cheap inmate labor helped Jackson become a thriving manufacturing city. In contrast to Jacktown's beautiful Greco-Roman exterior, medieval punishments, a strict code of silence, no heat, no electricity and a lack of plumbing defined life on the inside. Author Judy Gail Krasnow shares the incredible stories of life at Jacktown, replete with sadistic wardens, crafty escapees, Prohibition's Purple Gang, a chaplain who ran a brothel and influential reformers

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