Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
Now that Alcatraz might be reopened as a prison by the federal government, "Banfield" looks back at the historic facility that housed notorious figures, including George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Al ...
A view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary from the water in 1938. Courtesy National Park Service. On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true ...
One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...
The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...
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