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Though Pennsylvania is known for  its bucolic landscapes and the City of Brotherly love, the Keystone State has a darker...

These prison tales include chain-bus drivers, wild bull riders, and a prison baseball team that took on the Texas semi-pro...

Murder, mayhem, and a love story surround a feared mob boss Author: Nown, Graham Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press Illustration: N Language: ENG T......

How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana Author: Bradshaw, Jim Author: Miller, Danielle Publisher: University......

"A remarkable tale."—Chicago Tribune In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens,...

This is an intelligent, articulate, Cole Younger-not the blood-thirsty desperado of myth. Now he tells HIS side of the story....

Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving - such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls. Husband...

The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their...

The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56...

Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. ...

PRISON PUZZLE PIECES (the first of a three volume series) is a non-fiction account of a corrections officer working in...

On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup...