United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾaθ] "the gannet") or The Rock, was...
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inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. An inmate register reveals that there were 1576 prisoners in total which were held at Alcatraz during its time...
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Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California...
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military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The strong currents around the island and cold water...
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Robert Stroud (redirect from The Birdman of Alcatraz)
Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist. From 1942 to 1959, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz, where regulations...
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Alcatraz Dining Hall, often referred to as the Mess Hall, is the dining hall of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary where the prisoners and staff ate their...
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of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary by armed convicts. Two Federal Bureau...
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Henri Young (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
serving one of a series of prison terms, attempted to escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary with four other inmates in 1939. During the escape attempt,...
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known as "The Birdman of Alcatraz", Stroud was never allowed to keep any birds after his transfer to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1942. The film was...
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Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was the site of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary between 1934 and 1963. There were a total of 14 escape attempts from...
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Al Capone (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
part of the rationale for moving Capone to the recently opened Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco, in August 1934. On June 23,...
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and 1912. In 1933–1934, this was modernized and became the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Native Americans, known as Ohlone (A Miwok Indian word), were...
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Olin G. Blackwell (category Wardens of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
lawman who was the fourth and final warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which was situated on Alcatraz Island, California. Associate Warden to Paul...
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The United States Penitentiary, Atlanta (USP Atlanta) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated...
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Ed Wutke (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
who was convicted by the United States Federal Government for murder. He was sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for 27 years for committing murder at...
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Rufe Persful (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
inmates and he began being severely abused. He was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary a year later but was recognized and continued to be tortured...
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Forrest Tucker (criminal) (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
career until they were informed by police. A former inmate of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Tucker was able to escape from the authorities when he was...
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John Paul Scott (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
an American criminal who is noted as the only escapee from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary known to have reached the San Francisco shore by swimming. He...
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Machine Gun Kelly (gangster) (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
gang, from the penitentiary in Michigan City, Indiana, that same night. The trial was held at the Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Office Building...
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Paul J. Madigan (category Wardens of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
December 25, 1974) was the third warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which was situated on Alcatraz Island, California, US. He was born in Maple...
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Edwin B. Swope (category Wardens of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
nicknamed "Cowboy", was the second warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which was situated on Alcatraz Island, California, US. He was a native of New...
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Alvin Karpis (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
being captured. He also spent the longest time as a federal prisoner at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, serving twenty-six years. Karpis was born to Lithuanian...
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Rufus Franklin (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
life sentence in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. He is best known for taking part in the third documented attempted escape from Alcatraz Prison with Thomas...
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Murder in the First (film) (category Alcatraz Island in fiction)
history of a petty criminal named Henri Young who is sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and later put on trial for murder in the first degree as the...
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Army operated Fort Alcatraz and continued to provide services after the transition to the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Though Alcatraz is now part of the...
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James A. Johnston (category Wardens of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
warden who served as the first and longest-serving warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, serving from 1934 to 1948. He had earlier served as wardens...
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Miran Edgar Thompson (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
Edgar Thompson (December 16, 1917 – December 3, 1948) was an inmate of Alcatraz whose participation in an attempted escape on May 2, 1946, led to his execution...
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Burton Phillips (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
kidnapping, a federal crime. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison, and served time in Leavenworth and Alcatraz penitentiaries. He was released...
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Arthur Barker (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
He was arrested and convicted of kidnapping in 1935. Sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1936, he was killed three years later while attempting to...
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Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. James A. Johnston - The first warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Paul J. Madigan - The third warden of Alcatraz Federal...
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