Fire in the Big House : America's deadliest prison disaster /

Fire in the Big House : America's deadliest prison disaster /

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"On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came from all corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as...

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Main Author: Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > Fire, 1930
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
1900-1999
Fires > Ohio > Columbus > History > 20th century
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention > Ohio > Columbus
Prisons > Ohio > History > 20th century
Incendies > Ohio > Columbus > Histoire > 20e siècle
Prisons > Incendies et prévention des incendies > Ohio > Columbus
Prisons > Ohio > Histoire > 20e siècle
Fires
History
Prisoners
Prisons
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention
Residential Fires
Social conditions
Columbus (Ohio) > Social conditions > 20th century
Ohio
Ohio > Columbus
History > UNAUTHORIZED

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