by
Kenneth M. LaMaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
On July 1, 1895, under the direction of warden James French, the first federal prison was born. That same year, St. Louis architects Eames and Young went to work drawing up plans for an institution that would house the most notorious offenders in the nation�s history. At sunrise on March 1, 1897, 300...