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Nov 23, 2023 · Avatar: The Last Airbender: A two-part episode features a Fire Nation prison called “The Boiling Rock,” reminiscent of Alcatraz. Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980): Starring Michael Beck and directed by Paul Krasny, this film provides an insight into the shocking events surrounding Alcatraz.
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
Mar 9, 2020 · A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate - raising suspicions of not only a supernatural presence but also of deadly corruption on the notorious prisons punishment block .
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- 2020-03-09
Before being escorted to Alcatraz, they were handcuffed in high-security coaches and guarded by some 60 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents, U.S. Marshals, and railway security officials. Most of the prisoners were notorious bank robbers, counterfeiters, or murderers.
- Inmate #85: Al 'Scarface' Capone
- Inmate #110: Roy Gardner
- Inmate #117: George 'Machine Gun' Kelly
- Inmate #325: Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis
- Inmate #594: Robert 'Birdman' Stroud
- Inmate #1428: James 'Whitey' Bulger
- Inmate #1518: Meyer 'Mickey' Cohen
Conviction:Tax evasion Time Served at Alcatraz:5 years (1934–1939) Post-Term:mental illness, death from syphilis By the time Al Caponearrived at Alcatraz on the morning of August 22, 1934, he was past his peak as a crime kingpin. He had been sentenced to an 11-year term in 1931 after several lengthy court cases that focused more on his errant decla...
Conviction: Armed robbery Time Served at Alcatraz:2 years (1934–1936) Post-Term:author, suicide Alcatraz was repurposed by the federal government from a military prison to a general federal prison in 1933 expressly to deal with criminals like Roy G. Gardner, the man who was nicknamed “King of the Escape Artists.” Gardner seemed to be an outlaw from...
Conviction:Kidnapping Time Served at Alcatraz: 17 years (1934–1951) Post-Term: died of a heart attack in jail It couldn’t be said that many of the criminals who ended up in Alcatraz were from good families, but Machine Gun Kellywas raised in a well-off Memphis household and even attended some college. A sudden marriage led him to drop out of school...
Conviction: Kidnapping Time Served at Alcatraz: 26 years (1936–1962) Post-Term: author, pill overdose Like "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Francis Karpowicz saw kidnapping as an easier way to make large sums of money than bank robbing. Known as “Creepy” by fellow gang members for his unsettling grin, the native Canadian became the brains behind the Bark...
Conviction:Murder Time Served at Alcatraz: 17 years (1942–1959) Post-Term:death by natural causes in jail Possibly the most famous inmate in the history of Alcatraz is Robert Stroud, the so-called "Birdman of Alcatraz." This is due to a very successful 1962 movie (loosely) based on his life starring Burt Lancaster. The title of the film has given r...
Conviction:Armed robbery Time Served at Alcatraz:3 years (1959–1962) Post-Term:killed in prison Most people think of Alcatraz as a relic of past times, a chapter in a long-closed history of crime in America, but there are former inmates of Alcatraz who are still alive today. One of the most notorious is James “Whitey” Bulger, a man who began his ca...
Conviction:Tax evasion Time Served at Alcatraz: about a year, on and off (1961–1963) Post-Term: prison pipe attack, natural death Alcatraz wasn’t very far from closing when Meyer Harris “Mickey” Cohen made his two brief visits. Convicted of tax evasion for the second time in 10 years, Cohen served his time at Alcatraz in two parts – he was actually...
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Nov 12, 2020 · On Alcatraz Island in 2020, the penitentiary is a historical monument, a place to reckon with the past and contend with the present and future. Robert Lipscomb’s story and the stories of other incarcerated Black people on Alcatraz can be heard in Kevin Epps’s documentary “ The Black Rock AKA Black Alcatraz.
Mar 18, 2013 · If you take the tour of Alcatraz Island, one of the first things the guides tell you is that prisoner Robert Stroud wasn’t really the Birdman of Alcatraz – he kept birds at his previous jail, Leavenworth, but wasn’t allowed any pets when he was transferred to The Rock.
