{"product_id":"bandits-bibles-paperback-by-larrye-sullivan","title":"Bandits \u0026 Bibles Paperback by LarryE. 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Sullivan is an impressive authority on the subject . . . This should be read by anyone interested in criminals, law, or social reform.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Sullivan’s years of research and judicious selection have created an extraordinary peek into the dark, hidden world of nineteenth-century American prison life.” —James McGrath Morris, author of \u003ci\u003eJailhouse Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1876 the Jesse James and Cole Younger gang rode into Northfield, Minnesota, intent on robbing the local bank. Townsmen were waiting for the famous outlaws and they suffered the greatest rout of their careers. The James brothers fled, Clell Miller was killed, and the three Youngers got shot up and thrown into the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater. Years later, Cole Younger wrote his rip-roaring account of the great raid on Northfield and his ensuing time behind bars. Younger is just one of the more famous outlaws who took to writing while incarcerated.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBandits \u0026amp; Bibles\u003c\/i\u003e presents a lively array of selections from convict autobiographies that cover every facet of the prisoners’ lives—crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, and, in some cases, spiritual awakening. The harrowing tales of convict life presented in this volume leave no doubt that prison in the nineteenth century was far from easy. Hard labor in coal mines, whippings, solitary confinement in bare unheated cells, water torture, and iron maidens: these were just a few of the punishments meted out to these prisoners and vividly recounted in these pages.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOnly memoirs such as these, printed after the convicts’ release or smuggled out of prison, tell the other side of prison life and help paint a true picture of what went on behind the bars of the Big House . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDR. LARRY E. SULLIVAN\u003c\/b\u003e  was the chief librarian of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice until he retired in 2021, and a professor of criminal justice at the City University of New York. 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