United States Penitentiary,Alcatraz Island.

United States Penitentiary,Alcatraz Island

Opened: january,01,1934Closed: march,21.1963

ALCATRAZ ISLAND 1895

BUILDING

Guard lookout tower

HOSPITAL

KITCHENS

Solitary outside door

Solitary confinement cells

ESCAPE

ESCAPE

ESCAPE

MORGUE

This is the morgue where dead bodies would lie while waiting to be transported to the mainland.

“VISITATIONS RULES & REGULATIONS”U.S.P.,ALCATRAZ

This was in the library. In case you can't read it, it says, "... these men read more serious literature than does the ordinary person in the community. Philosophers such as Kant, Scheponhauer, Hegal, etc., are especially popular..."

Famous inmates

George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrived on September 4, 1934. At Alcatraz, Kelly was constantly boasting about several robberies and murders that he had never committed. Although this was said to be an apparent point of frustration for several fellow prisoners, Warden Johnson considered him a model inmate. Kelly was returned to Leavenworth in 1951.

Born January 17, 1899(1899-01-17)Brooklyn, New York

Died January 25, 1947 (aged 48)Palm Island, Florida, U.S. (Miami Beach, Florida)Penalty Imprisonment from 1932 to 1939

Status deceasedOccupation gangster

bootleggerSpouse Mae Josephine Co

ughlinChildren Albert Francis Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone

When Al Capone arrived on Alcatraz in 1934, prison officials made it clear that he would not be receiving any preferential treatment. While serving his time in Atlanta, Capone, a master manipulator, had continued running his rackets from behind bars by buying off guards. "Big Al" generated incredible media attention while on Alcatraz though he served just four and a half years of his sentence there before developing symptoms of syphilis and being transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in Los Angeles.

Born September 3, 1929 (1929-09-03) (age 78)Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.Alias(es) Thomas F. Baxter, Tom Harris, Mark Shapeton, Thomas Marshall, Jimmy Bulger, Whitey Bulger

Status Alive, wanted by FBI

Occupation CriminalSpouse Teresa StanleyParents James Joseph

Bulger Sr., Jane Veronica Bulger

James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. spent 3 years on Alcatraz (1959-1962) while serving a sentence for bank robbery. While there, he became close to Clarence Carnes, also known as the Choctaw Kid.

By decision of US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the penitentiary was closed for good on March 21, 1963. It was closed because it was far more expensive to operate than other prisons (nearly $10 per prisoner per day, as opposed to $3 per prisoner per day at Atlanta), half a century of salt water saturation had severely eroded the buildings, and the bay was being badly polluted by the sewage from the approximately 250 inmates and 60 Bureau of Prisons families on the island. The United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, a new, traditional land-bound prison opened that same year to serve as a replacement for Alcatraz.

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