The Hot House Quotes

“Any who say they are not willing to shoot an inmate are not hired.”
― Pete Earley, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

“On February 1, 1906, Leavenworth received its first inmate, John Grindstone, a Native American convicted of murder. He was paroled a few years later, but returned to the Hot House within months for killing another man. He eventually died of tuberculosis at the prison and achieved another first by being buried in the first plot of a new pauper cemetery on a hill a half mile from the penitentiary. Officially called Mount Hope, the prison’s cemetery is still used today, although it is better known as Peckerwood Hill, the tag given it by convicts and guards. By the early 1900s, the government had”
― Pete Earley, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison