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Inside Alcatraz: True Stories of the Prison’s Most Notorious Inmates

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 ...
Christian Science Monitor

The Alcatraz prison is now a museum. But there’s no escaping its history.

JAILHOUSE ROCK: Alcatraz, aka The Rock, sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff By Melanie Stetson Freeman, Staff photographer; Troy Aidan Sambajon, Staff writer San ...
NBC 6 South Florida

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

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 ...
NBC Washington

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

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 ...