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Sep 29, 2020 · The Most Infamous Inmates of Alcatraz. In August 1934, the first group of notorious inmates arrived at the Big House on the Bay. We take a look at a few of the most notorious. By Joe McGasko...
- Aaron Randle
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- The Hopi Nineteen. In 1894, when Alcatraz was still operating as a military prison, the U.S. government arrested 19 Hopi men for refusing to send their children to American assimilation boarding schools almost 1,000 miles away from their reservation in Oraibi, Arizona.
- Frank Lucas Bolt. Little has been documented about Alcatraz’s LGBTQ+ prisoners, but gay men did play a role in the infamous prison. In fact, it was a queer man, Frank Lucas Bolt, who served as the prison’s first official inmate.
- Al Capone. For notorious Chicago-based mobster Al Capone, doing hard time before Alcatraz was rarely that hard. During earlier stints in Atlanta and other prisons, Capone had recruited guards to work on his payroll and enjoyed special privileges—from home-cooked meals and cushy bedding to unlimited access to the warden.
- Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the 'Bird Man' of Alcatraz. By the time Robert Stroud was transferred to Alcatraz in 1942, he had already established himself as one of the most dangerous—and notorious—prisoners in America, with a rap sheet already decades long.
This is a list of notable inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. An inmate register reveals that there were 1576 prisoners in total which were held at Alcatraz during its time as a Federal Penitentiary, between 1934 and 1963, although figures reported have varied and some have stated it to be 1557.
Famous Inmates. While several well-known criminals, such as Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first "Public Enemy #1"), and Arthur "Doc" Barker did time on Alcatraz, most of the 1,576 prisoners incarcerated there were not well-known gangsters, but prisoners who refused to conform to the rules and regulations at other ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Who is the most famous inmate at Alcatraz? Notorious gangster Al Capone tops our list. Capone spent four-and-a-half years at Alcatraz and continued to run his illegal operations behind bars by buying off the prison guards.
- Alfred E. Neuman
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Jun 14, 2024 · Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, was surely the prison’s most famous inmate. He even had a film made about him, which earned Burt Lancaster an Oscar nomination. Stroud was imprisoned for murdering a bartender who had allegedly owed money to a prostitute that Stroud was pimping.
Jun 25, 2024 · George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly was notorious for his involvement in the 1933 kidnapping of oil magnate Charles Urschel. Captured and sentenced to life imprisonment that same year, Kelly was sent to Alcatraz in 1934. Another famous inmate was Robert Stroud, nicknamed the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’.
