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- catalog abstract ""Summers are always stifling in southern Virginia, and they're even hotter on the Mecklenburg Correctional Center's Death Row when Dennis Stockton arrives there in July 1983. Charged with murder for hire, Stockton insisted he was innocent, but his jury sentenced him to die. In prison, he begins keeping a diary and it soon becomes his lifeline, nurturing dreams of freedom and publication as an author." "Mecklenburg's officials had always prided themselves on running a secure prison, but that left them vulnerable to an ingenious escape conspiracy. Though indispensable in the plotting, Stockton decides not to run, betting instead on a new trial and exoneration. The escape of the "Mecklenburg Six" is dazzlingly suspenseful, as they take hostages, don guards' uniforms, and, staging a monumental bluff, make history with America's first mass escape from Death Row. Meanwhile, Stockton notes it all in his journal." "After the escape, a Norfolk newspaper editor, William F. Burke, Jr., writes to the remaining inmates, seeking information on the unprecedented breakout. Stockton's diary becomes the most revealing account, and when excerpts are published, a scandalous portrait of Death Row emerges: bribed guards, marijuana plants, homebrew alcohol, weapon stashes, unlocked cell doors, and jailhouse sex. Overnight, Stockton becomes the most hated man in Virginia's prisons for his expose. During the next eleven years, he survives plots against his life and endures subhuman conditions. Throughout his ordeal he struggles to find his voice as a writer, while battling to gain a new trial and escape the "monster factory," his name for Death Row. As Stockton's scheduled execution nears, the case against him begins unraveling, leaving readers to ponder the true nature of justice." "Burke and Joe Jackson, a reporter colleague, investigate Stockton's persistent claims of innocence and discover that everything he has asserted checks out, from his version of the closing hours of a lonely country diner to his allegations of a secret prosecution deal with the witness whose testimony convicted him. They uncover a sinister underworld in Stockton's small town and fill in the frame that was hung around his neck."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11416563.
- catalog contributor b11416564.
- catalog contributor b11416565.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Summers are always stifling in southern Virginia, and they're even hotter on the Mecklenburg Correctional Center's Death Row when Dennis Stockton arrives there in July 1983. Charged with murder for hire, Stockton insisted he was innocent, but his jury sentenced him to die. In prison, he begins keeping a diary and it soon becomes his lifeline, nurturing dreams of freedom and publication as an author." "Mecklenburg's officials had always prided themselves on running a secure prison, but that left them vulnerable to an ingenious escape conspiracy. Though indispensable in the plotting, Stockton decides not to run, betting instead on a new trial and exoneration. The escape of the "Mecklenburg Six" is dazzlingly suspenseful, as they take hostages, don guards' uniforms, and, staging a monumental bluff, make history with America's first mass escape from Death Row. Meanwhile, Stockton notes it all in his journal." "After the escape, a Norfolk newspaper editor, William F.".
- catalog description "As Stockton's scheduled execution nears, the case against him begins unraveling, leaving readers to ponder the true nature of justice." "Burke and Joe Jackson, a reporter colleague, investigate Stockton's persistent claims of innocence and discover that everything he has asserted checks out, from his version of the closing hours of a lonely country diner to his allegations of a secret prosecution deal with the witness whose testimony convicted him. They uncover a sinister underworld in Stockton's small town and fill in the frame that was hung around his neck."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Burke, Jr., writes to the remaining inmates, seeking information on the unprecedented breakout. Stockton's diary becomes the most revealing account, and when excerpts are published, a scandalous portrait of Death Row emerges: bribed guards, marijuana plants, homebrew alcohol, weapon stashes, unlocked cell doors, and jailhouse sex. Overnight, Stockton becomes the most hated man in Virginia's prisons for his expose. During the next eleven years, he survives plots against his life and endures subhuman conditions. Throughout his ordeal he struggles to find his voice as a writer, while battling to gain a new trial and escape the "monster factory," his name for Death Row.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293).".
- catalog description "Introduction / William Styron -- The Great Escape -- Cell Block Diagram -- The Retribution -- Execution Day.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 299 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0812932064 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Times Books,".
- catalog spatial "Virginia".
- catalog subject "364.66/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Escapes Virginia Case studies.".
- catalog subject "HV8658.S76 J33 1999".
- catalog subject "Mecklenburg Correctional Center (Va.)".
- catalog subject "Mecklenburg Six (Group)".
- catalog subject "Prisoners Virginia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Stockton, Dennis W., 1940-1995.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / William Styron -- The Great Escape -- Cell Block Diagram -- The Retribution -- Execution Day.".
- catalog title "Dead run : the untold story of Dennis Stockton and America's only mass escape from death row / Joe Jackson and William F. Burke, Jr.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".