by Pete Earley
I wish to thank the following persons by name. In Leavenworth: Frederick Thaufeer al-Deen, Terrance Al-den, Gary Anderson, Susan Avila-McGill, Alvin Bass, Kirk Binszler, William Blount, Carl Bowles, Sam Callibone, Charles Carter, Barry Chapin, Carl Cheek, Steve Chuning, Earl Coleman-Bey, Lee Connor, Don Denny, H. W. Diamond, Sr., John Dobre, Phyllis Driscoll, Connie Duncan, Jeffrey Duncan, Armando Figueroa, Frank Flying Horse, Leonard Foresta, Yvonne M. Frament, Fred Fry, Burrell Fuller, Edward Gallegos, Daryel Garrison, Edward Geouge, Torres Germany, Richard Green, David Ham, Mike Harris, Jim Henderson, Charles Hill, Mike Janas, Sabrina Johns, Tracy Johns, Bill Kindig, Sharon Lacy, Steve Lacy, Bob Lawrence, Albert Lee III, Thomas Edgar Little, Bill Lucas, James Luongo, Bill Masters, Dan McCauley, Janice McCauley, Steve McGill, Cherre Miller, Eric Mitchell, Ray Moore, Carlos Moran, Osiris Morejon, Daisy Morello, Larry Munger, Kenneth Myer, Steve Myhand, Mark Nash, Bruce Newkirk, Jim Orr, Pat Othic, Craig Ozarowski, Connie Parish, Franklyn Perry, Leonard Peltier, David Phillips, Edward Pierce, William Post, Wade Rabb, Vandell Racy, Randy Ream, Ranldy Reed, Barbara Ricktor, Pamela Rothberger, John Rowe, John Rule, Eddie Sanchez, Mike Sandels, Jim Schroeder, Dallas Scott, Jim Sheeve, Jacquelyn Shivers, Ralph Siever, Dennis Silverberg, Thomas Silverstein, Ron Simpson, LeRoy Skaggs, Bill Slack, Bruce Smith, Clyde Smith, Dick Smith, J. R. Smith, Wayne Smith, Don Stiles, Dan Tedrick, Bill Terrell, Barbara Thomas, Bill Thomas, John Trott, Joe Trustee, Glenn Walters, Monty Watkins, Thomas White, Bill Whited, Ernie Williams, Jerry Wolfe, Mark W. Works.
In Washington: Clair A. Cripe, Gerald Farkas, Lloyd Hooker, John Jackson, Tom Kane, Laura Mecoy, Kathryn L. Morse, Roger Ray, Craig Trout. In Marion: Ronnie Bruscino, Randy J. Davis, John Greschner, Gary Henman, R. A. Litchfield, Mike Sizemore. Others include: Lawrence Y. Bitterman, Norman Carlson, Linda Davis, Maxine Evans, David Freeman, Jerry O’Brien, Jeannie Pellman, Elke Shoats, Doris Smith, Michael Stotts, Lois Wadsworth, Father John Wielebski.
I would particularly wish to thank two fellow writers, Walter Harrington and Patricia Hersch, who gave me excellent editorial guidance and moral support, as well as Ann Harris and Fred Klein, my editors at Bantam Books.
Others whose help I would like to acknowledge include: George and Linda Earley; Stephen J. O’Neil of the Los Angeles law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton; Carolyn Hunter; Nelson and Ginny DeMille; Karen Lockwood; Jay Myerson; Keran Harrington; Toni Shaklee; Lynn and LouAnn Smith; Dr. C. T. Shades; Donna and Wayne Wolfersberger; and my friends at United Christian Parish.
Last, I would like to thank my parents, Elmer and Jean Earley, for their loving advice and support; Barbara Hunter Earley, my wife, who put up with my being gone for months at a time while I was in Leavenworth; and Steve, Kev, and Kathy Earley, who were always waiting at home for Daddy with a smile and a hug.
For Elmer and Jean,
my parents
Bantam Books by Pete Earley
THE HOT HOUSE
CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE
SUPER CASINO
WITSEC
(with Gerald Shur)
About the Author
PETE EARLEY’s interest in prisons and the American justice system dates back to the 1970s, when he wrote a series of newspaper articles about the inhumane treatment of mentally ill convicts being held in the Oklahoma state prison system. He was formerly a reporter for The Washington Post, and is the author of articles for other newspapers and national magazines. Like his other acclaimed books, the bestselling Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, the Edgar Award-winning Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life and Justice in a Southern Town, and Super Casino: Inside the “New” Las Vegas, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison shows Earley as the consummate reporter who lets the evidence of what he observes form the heart of the powerful story he has to tell. His latest book, WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, written with WITSEC founder Gerald Shur, has been praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a fast-paced, exciting text that rings with the authenticity to which other crime books aspire.”
Pete Earley and his family live in Virginia.
Visit the author’s website at
www.PeteEarley.com