The New York Tombs: Inside and Out (Abridged, Annotated)

by John Munro

For years, John Munro spent time inside the notorious Tombs Prison in New York, observing and working with inmates as a chaplain. In this graphic and sometimes horrifying account, he describes famous prisoners and their cases, conditions in the prison, and the corrosive effect of city corruption.Opened in 1838, by the time Munro began working there in the 1870s, the prison had become a waystation for the downtrodden with no real attempts at rehabilitation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519062729
• ISBN13: 9781519062727
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"