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Author Johnson, Lester Douglas, 1903-

Title The devil's front porch / by Lester Douglas Johnson.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1970]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  365.978138 J634Bj 1970    ---  Lib Use Only
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Kansas Reference  KR 365.978 Joh    ---  Available
Description xix, 226 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents 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.
Subject Johnson, Lester Douglas, 1903-
Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 0700600663
9780700600663

 
    
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