Old Joliet Prison

Old Joliet Prison
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781439671726
ISBN-13 : 1439671729
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Book Synopsis Old Joliet Prison by : Amy Kinzer Steidinger

Download or read book Old Joliet Prison written by Amy Kinzer Steidinger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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