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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Jacktown: History & Hard Times at Michigan S First State Prison

Jacktown: History & Hard Times at Michigan S First State Prison

Krasnow, Judy Gail

Hardcover

General PhotographyRegional: MidwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1540214605
ISBN13: 9781540214607
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Feb 6 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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