- United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (. English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾaθ] "the gannet") or The Rock...
- On the morning of June 12, 1962, guards at Alcatraz—a federal penitentiary opened in 1933 on a desolate island in San Francisco...
- Over time, the character of the military prison changed to that of a federal penitentiary. ... The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
- The Federal Government had decided to open a maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary to deal with the most incorrigible inmates in Federal prisons...
- ...Department of Justice , and, from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz served as a federal prison for some of the most dangerous convicts in the American penitentiary system.
- United States Penitentiary Alcatraz represents the federal government's response to post-Prohibition, post-Depression America.
- The federal penitentiary at Alcatraz was shut down in 1963 because its operating expenses were much higher than those of other federal facilities at the time.
- It was established as a Federal Penitentiary on 1st July 1934 and terminated on 21st March 1963. The Alcatraz Penitentiary had 336 common cells and 42...
- San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island, with its infamous federal penitentiary, has been a significant part of American history for over a century.
- Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary US was one of the most famous prisons on the planet. It is located on an island two kilometres off the shore of San Francisco.
