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 ...
(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...
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 ...