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Paperback U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth Book

ISBN: 0738550914

ISBN13: 9780738550916

U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth

(Part of the Images of America: Kansas Series)

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On July 1, 1895, under the direction of warden James French, the first federal prison was born. That same year, St. Louis architects Eames and Young went to work drawing up plans for an institution that would house the most notorious offenders in the nation's history. At sunrise on March 1, 1897, 300 inmates and 30 guards marched three miles to the construction site located on the southwest corner of the military reservation. From sunup to sundown...

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