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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > Fire, 1930. Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) Prisons > Fires and fire prevention > Ohio > Columbus. Prisons > Ohio > History > 20th century. Fires > Ohio > Columbus > History > 20th century. Columbus (Ohio) > Social conditions > 20th century. Fires. Prisons. Prisons > Fires and fire prevention. Social conditions. Ohio. Ohio > Columbus. Residential Fires. Prisoners. History. 1900-1999
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	America's deadliest prison disaster
Format:	Book

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