Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.
Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz.
This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt.
| ISBN: | 9781784750664 |
| Publication date: | 3rd December 2015 |
| Author: | Jim Quillen |
| Publisher: | Arrow Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: historical, political and military True crime Penology and punishment Offenders Memoirs |