Jack Black

male
burglar, Hobo, Salt Chunk Mary, opium, suicide, You Can't Win…prisons
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo and professional burglar, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote "You Can't...

David Wilson

male, 49 years old
British, PhD, Wormwood Scrubs, prisons, Academic of UCE Birmingham, Prison Reform Trust
David Wilson is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Born in Glasgow in April 1960, he...
Kenneth McDuff

Kenneth McDuff

male, deceased (1998)
executions by the United States, rapist, death row, life imprisonment, murderer of children, capital punishment…prisons
Kenneth Allen McDuff (March 21, 1946 - November 17, 1998) was an American serial killer.
Joseph Cafasso

Joseph Cafasso

male, deceased (1860)
from the Province of Asti, from Turin, prison chaplain, Chaplain, Saint, Don Cafasso…prisons
Giuseppe Cafasso was a significant social reformer in early ninteenth-century Turin, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was one of the...

Tom Murton

male, deceased (1990)
penology, Penologist, brubaker, Penal system in the United States, prisons, Thomas Murton
Thomas Murton (1928 - October 10, 1990), generally known as Tom Murton, was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of...
Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin

male, deceased (1840)
poet, novelist, Playwright, Congregation of Christian Brother, Irish, limerick…prisons
Gerald Griffin (born in 1803 in Limerick, Ireland) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. The son of a brewer, he went to London in 1823 and...

James A.C. Brown

male, deceased (1964)
normality, Specialist, middle east, Psychiatry, Psychiatrist, mental illness…prisons
James A.C. Brown (Edinburgh, 1911 - 1964) was a psychiatrist. He took a degree in medicine at the Edinburgh University. He later traveled to Europe...

Gerald R. Griffin

male, 53 years old
united states marine corps, Korean Air Flight 007, From Lewiston, Idaho, prisons, Southern Methodist University, No Parent Left Behind
Gerald R. Griffin (born in 1956 in Lewiston, Idaho) is an American author, educator and professor. The son of a minister, after serving in the...

Vivien Stern Baroness Stern

female, 68 years old
Jewish, London Borough of Lambeth, Order of the British Empire, Nacro, Alumni of the University of Bristol, Nuffield College, Oxford…prisons
Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern CBE (born 25 September, 1941). The daughter of Jewish parents, Stern was educated at Kent College, and read...

Walter R. Ratliff

male
Harvard University, Associated Press, rikers island, Muslim Brotherhood, Oslo Accords, prisons
Walter Ratliff is a journalist working in Washington, DC. His professional life has taken him from the jungles of the Philippines to the deserts of...