# Inside Alcatraz

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- Book: [Inside Alcatraz](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-quillen/inside-alcatraz) ([Inside Alcatraz.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-quillen/inside-alcatraz.md))
- Authors: [Jim Quillen](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-quillen)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-848-3
- Published: 2015-01-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt.