convicts

Escape! – Three stories of men in the French penal colonies, in horrible conditions, condemned to death or worse, and their attempts to escape to freedom.

Stories From The Big House by Convict 12627
Five stories of life inside prison and how men get there, from Convict 12627. Convict 12627 was the pseudonym of Robert Arnold. His stories ran as features in several pulp mystery and crime magazines during the late 1930s.