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Last Train to Alcatraz: The Autobiography of Leon (Whitey) Thompson, Former Alcatraz Inmate
Hardcover
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332 pages
Published
1998
by Leon W. Thompson
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A favourite as a child, it's an horrific tale of life on Alcatraz Island and other prisons. Nothing is held back.
I only made it a few pages into the book and decided if I was a guard I would put Whitey in the hole and beat him senseless too. I mean *really* flooding your cell because you suddenly want a new one... and talking about yourself in the third person is just weird ><
So detailed. I love when people's memoirs are honest and don't claim that everything is perfect and the pain is over. This shows that even though the pain of his past is still with him he has learned from it and still continues to learn from it.
I haven't really read this book, I am using it in place for Alcatraz vs. The Scrivener's Bones, for the 3rd time I have read the book.
I actually met Whitey at Alcatraz and he is truly a man who seemed to be repentant of his crimes.
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