[.ca] Castle: The Story of a Kentucky Prison (ISBN 0913383325)

Kentuckian finds Eddyville history riveting:
To be short and sweet.this book is a great read and you can visualize the characters and settings thru skillful character and setting developement by a son of a Eddyville Prison Guard.Highly recommended for all,even if not interested in the American Penal System

A terrific book.:
"Castle, The Story of a Kentucky Prison" details the story of the Kentucky State Penitentiary, located at Eddyville, Kentucky. The author, Bill Cunningham is familar with the institution, having defended the inmates who are incarcerated there as a defense attorney, prosecuted them as prosecuting attorney, and ordered them to be commited there as a criminal court judge. The book itself is centered around the riot of 1923, which at the time was one of the most notorious prison uprisings in American history. The author is a terrific storyteller; if the book was a movie, it would be a classic directed by Stanley Kubrick, the way in which the story goes back and forth, side to side, yet stays very much together. This book will appeal to a wide variety of people, not just academics in criminal justice, as books on this subject usually do.