In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...
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 ...
Each year, more than one million people make the trek to Alcatraz Island to visit the site of the prison that was home to some of America's most hardened ...
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 ...
Prisoner No. 85 spent four years at the island penitentiary ...
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The food at San Francisco Bay's iconic Alcatraz prison was so tasty even the guards loved it
Prison food may get a deservedly bad rap, but Alcatraz's fresh and filling cafeteria offerings were rarely cause for complaint, even from the guards.
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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