Long Binh Jail: An Oral History of Vietnam's Notorious U.S. Military Prison Book

Long Binh Jail was what the troops during the Vietnam War called the U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam. This overcrowded military prison was one of the most feared locations in all of Vietnam, the place where Army rule-breakers and dangerous criminals from throughout Vietnam were sent. Within its razor-wire-bound confines were Americans whose offences ran the gamut: refusal of orders, drug possession, assault, rape, and murder. Containing up to a thousand prisoners at a time, it was, in effect, the Army's own little penal colony and one sharply divided by race. In 1968, most of its African-American prisoners took over the compound in a riot that was noted around the world as yet anther sign of U.S. forces' sagging morale. Military historian Cecil B. Currey tells the story of Long Binh Jail through interviews of dozens of former guards, prisoners, and adminstrators.Read More