JERRY'S RIOT: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance

In Jerry’s Riot: The True Story of Montana’s 1959 Prison Disturbance, author Kevin S. Giles captures the conflict that ensued between Warden Floyd Powell and career criminal Jerry Myles, who had done time at Alcatraz Island and other federal and state prisons. Both men were new to Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Powell wanted to reform the prison. Myles wanted to run it.

That conflict came to a violent climax on April 16, 1959, when Myles and accomplices Lee Smart and George Alton seized...