Fire in the Big House : America's deadliest prison disaster / Mitchel P. Roth.

"On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came from all corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as Russia had...

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Main Author: Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Athens : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
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Physical Description:xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
America's deadliest prison disaster
Format: Book

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