Fire in the Big House: America's Deadliest Prison Disaster by Mitchel P. Roth

Fire in the Big House: America's Deadliest Prison Disaster

Mitchel P. Roth

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history emotional sad medium-paced
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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 Proh...

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