LEADER 04420nam 22006614a 450 001 9910777675203321 005 20230617042010.0 010 $a0-292-79702-8 024 7 $a10.7560/706606 035 $a(CKB)1000000000456572 035 $a(EBL)3443139 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191115 035 $a(PQKB)11003016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443139 035 $a(OCoLC)232160499 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2146 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443139 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10194817 035 $a(DE-B1597)586797 035 $a(OCoLC)1280943683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797024 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000456572 100 $a20041130d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTo Alcatraz, death row, and back$b[electronic resource] $ememories of an East LA outlaw /$fErnie Lo?pez and Rafael Pe?rez-Torres 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-70660-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""CONTENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Education""; ""Chapter 1: The Judgment against Me""; ""Chapter 2: My Formal Education""; ""Chapter 3: The Federal Case""; ""Chapter 4: Escape""; ""Chapter 5: Freeman's Revenge""; ""Chapter 6: Returned and Resentenced""; ""Part Two: Training""; ""Chapter 7: The Welcome Wagon""; ""Chapter 8: Isolation""; ""Chapter 9: Escape from Alcatraz""; ""Chapter 10: The ""Riot"" of '46""; ""Chapter 11: ""What about the Plum Juice?""""; ""Chapter 12: My Life as a Free Man""; ""Part Three: Survival""; ""Chapter 13: Haunted by Alcatraz"" 327 $a""Chapter 14: Judgment Once More""""Chapter 15: Condemned""; ""Chapter 16: My Fight for Life""; ""Epilogue""; ""Afterword""; ""Works Cited"" 330 $aWhen Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of necessity got tangled up with ambition and adventure. At thirteen, a joyride in a stolen car led to a sentence in California's harshest juvenile reformatory. The system's failure to show any mercy soon propelled López into a cycle of crime and incarceration that resulted in his spending decades in some of America's most notorious prisons, including four and a half years on death row for a murder López insists he did not commit. To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back is the personal life story of a man who refused to be broken by either an abusive father or an equally abusive criminal justice system. While López freely admits that "I've been no angel," his insider's account of daily life in Alcatraz and San Quentin graphically reveals the violence, arbitrary infliction of excessive punishment, and unending monotony that give rise to gang cultures within the prisons and practically insure that parolees will commit far worse crimes when they return to the streets. Rafael Pérez-Torres discusses how Ernie López's experiences typify the harsher treatment that ethnic and minority suspects often receive in the American criminal justice system, as well as how they reveal the indomitable resilience of Chicanos/as and their culture. As Pérez-Torres concludes, "López's story presents us with the voice of one who?though subjected to a system meant to destroy his soul?not only endured but survived, and in surviving prevailed." 606 $aRecidivists$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aDeath row inmates$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aHispanic Americans$zCalifornia$vBiography 615 0$aRecidivists 615 0$aDeath row inmates 615 0$aHispanic Americans 676 $a365/.6/092 676 $aB 700 $aLo?pez$b Ernie$f1922-$01551468 701 $aPe?rez-Torres$b Rafael$0553496 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777675203321 996 $aTo Alcatraz, death row, and back$93810979 997 $aUNINA