The hot house : (Record no. 232195)
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| control field | hothouselifeinsi00earl |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | CaSfIA |
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| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| fixed length control field | 910628s1992 nyu 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 91025400 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | BAKER |
| -- | BTCTA |
| -- | YDXCP |
| -- | UAB |
| -- | CaSfIA |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 055307573X : |
| Terms of availability | $22.50 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780553075731 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)24174454 |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | n-us-ks |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HV9474.L5 |
| Item number | E22 1992 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 365/.978138 |
| Edition number | 20 |
| 029 1# - (OCLC) | |
| OCLC library identifier | NZ1 |
| System control number | 3953445 |
| 029 1# - (OCLC) | |
| OCLC library identifier | AU@ |
| System control number | 000008345242 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Earley, Pete. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The hot house : |
| Medium | [electronic resource] |
| Remainder of title | life inside Leavenworth Prison / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Pete Earley. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Bantam Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1992. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 383 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Author of the acclaimed Family of Spies, Pete Earley is the first writer ever permitted unlimited access to America's oldest federal prison. Out of the iron belly of this maximum-security penitentiary comes his stunning account of life behind bars--the nation's hardest criminals doing hard time... It's a self-contained metropolis behind vast walls built in 1895; a lethal place governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Murder is frequent, rape is less for sex than for power, and respect is the coin of the realm. Once disrespected, a Leavenworth inmate has two choices: he can submit to virtual slavery--or he can fight his antagonist until one of them dies. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Nicknamed "the Hot House" because of the sweltering conditions of its cellblocks, the federal penitentiary in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, seethes with the pervasive threat of riot. It is the most dreaded facility in the system--not because of its maximum-security rating, but because of its fierce population: sociopathic gangsters, Aryan Nation neo-Nazi killers, muscle toughs, ruthless narcotics profiteers, and heavyset bikers pockmarked with bullet wounds like acne scars. Even the shaven-legged "punks," the drunks, and the junkies may be carrying homemade "shank" knives under their shirts. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Pete Earley, celebrated investigative reporter, conducted literally hundreds of hours of interviews, all but living inside the primordial world of Leavenworth. Out of this extraordinary firsthand access, as well as essential documents, telephone transcripts, and prison files, comes the riveting story of what life is actually like inside this most famous of prisons. The Hot House depicts the gulf between the thinking of us "Square Johns" and the inmates--people a Hot House prison psychologist termed as having "only two emotions, fear and anger. Everything these inmates do revolves around those two emotions and nothing else.". |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Hot House focuses on a few of the "star" players in Leavenworth: among them Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who, at age forty-two, has spent almost thirty of those years behind bars; Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison's immovable grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in "no human contact status" since 1983; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old, and the nickname "Catman" because he takes devoted care of the cats that live inside Leavenworth. The inmates are kept under control by an enormous staff of guards, whose main job is to keep the turf wars at bay and quell riots before they erupt. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Not only a gripping account of real men behind bars and those who control them, Pete Earley's book is also a startling meditation on national prison policy. The United States has the dubious distinction of locking up the highest percentage of its population of any country in the world. The subject matter of The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison colors our daily lives and fills every night's newscasts. This disquieting book compels wide attention. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Prisons |
| Geographic subdivision | Kansas |
| -- | Leavenworth. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Online version: |
| Main entry heading | Earley, Pete. |
| Title | Hot house. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | New York : Bantam Books, 1992 |
| Record control number | (OCoLC)555256400 |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Online version: |
| Main entry heading | Earley, Pete. |
| Title | Hot house. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | New York : Bantam Books, 1992 |
| Record control number | (OCoLC)607933906 |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/hothouselifeinsi00earl">http://www.archive.org/details/hothouselifeinsi00earl</a> |
| Public note | Free eBook from the Internet Archive |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1546154M">http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1546154M</a> |
| Public note | Additional information and access via Open Library |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-BOOKS |
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