The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley [FIRST EDITION]

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley

FIRST EDITION / THIRD PRINTING [1992] BANTAM BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   

DJ has shelf wear as well as some wear to edges, but is othewise in nice shape. 

Book itself is very good.  Clean cover.  Pages read nicely! 

The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the "star" players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison's grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in "no human contact" status since 1983; "tough cop" guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the authority to sentence an inmate to "the Hole"; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old--and known as the "Catman" for his devoted care of the cats who live inside the prison walls.

Pete Earley, celebrated reporter and author of Family of Spies, all but lived for nearly two years inside the primordial world of Leavenworth, where he conducted hundreds of interviews. Out of this unique, extraordinary access comes the riveting story of what life is actually like in the oldest maximum-security prison in the country. - Bookshop Apocalypse