Early days at the Kansas State Penitentiary -- Initiation at the Devil's front porch -- The mine -- Mine mules -- Prison friendships -- The brickyard and the power plant -- Sexual perversion in the prison -- Capital punishment? -- What leads men to crime? -- The day all Hell broke loose -- "Tennessee Tom" -- Rehabilitation : State Penitentiary today
Summary
"The vivid recollections of a man who for thirty years was an inmate of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing..."--Jacket.