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No Way Out: A Historical Documentary

No Way Out: A Historical Documentary is the written companion to a forty-minute documentary film entitled "No Way Out". The film deals with a 1974 inmate standoff at a prison in Huntsville, Texas known as the Carrasco Incident. The film examines the prison takeover through the eyes of those who lived through it. Composed of five interviews, "No Way Out" is a compilation of various points of view ranging from former hostages, members of the press, and law enforcement. The written companion for t… more

Date: August 2003

Creator: Holder, Elizabeth Suzanne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Reported Impact of a Correctional Facility's Presence on Community Solidarity: Huntsville, Texas

The problem examined is community solidarity in a well-established prison town. The primary question addressed in this study is "what is the reported impact of a correctional facility's presence on community solidarity?" This study is concerned with the community's perception about the problems, as well as the benefits involved in the housing of a prison and in particular the solidarity of the community. The relevant literature dates from 1929 to 2004 and examines a wide range of concepts as… more

Date: May 2006

Creator: Nation, Patricia Ann Campo

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Eleven Days in Hell: the 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas

From one o’clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o’clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunitio… more

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Date: August 15, 2004

Creator: Harper, William T.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press

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[News Script: Evans]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Clarence Wesley "Sonny" Evans pleading guilty to four felony charges against him.

Date: February 5, 1969

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo

Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O.B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the changing prison demimonde. Over the years th… more

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Date: July 2016

Creator: Roth, Mitchel P.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press