Confessions of a Jailer by H. Francis Spencer (.PDF)
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Confessions of a Jailer: a Prison Story of the Present Day by H. Francis Spencer
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Overview: Exposé of brutality in the California prison system, written by a retired jailer. Spencer offers a somewhat sensationalized mea culpa for the arbitrary punishments, inedible rations, and rampant corruption that prevailed under his tenure, though one senses his motives may have leaned more to selling books than to reform.
Published in 1914.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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