Full name: The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

Author: Pete Earley Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780553560237 0553560239

he most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the "star" players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison's grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in "no human contact" status since 1983; "tough cop" guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the authority to sentence an inmate to "the Hole"; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old--and known as the "Catman" for his devoted care of the cats who live inside the prison walls. Pete Earley, celebrated reporter and author of Family of Spies, all but lived for nearly two years inside the primordial world of Leavenworth, where he conducted hundreds of interviews. Out of this unique, extraordinary access comes the riveting story of what life is actually like in the oldest maximum-security prison in the country. Similar books: Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Popular Crime by Bill James The Innocent Man by John Grisham Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott The Corner by David Simon I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara American Predator by Maureen Callahan A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule If I Can't Have You by Gregg Olsen Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule Dead By Sunset by Ann Rule Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule Bind, Torture, Kill by Roy Wenzl The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule This House of Grief by Helen Garner