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Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island by Eve Bunting
Alcatraz Screw: My Years As a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison by George H. Gregory
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak
Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc by Milton Daniel Beacher
Battle at Alcatraz: A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock by Ernest B. Lageson
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith
Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz by Adam Fortunate Eagle
Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971 (California Indian Series) by Adam Fortunate Eagle
Riddle of the Rock: The Only Successful Escape from Alcatraz by Don Denevi
The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism by Troy R. Johnson
Alcatraz by Richard Dunbar
Eyewitness on Alcatraz: Life on the Rock As Told by the Guards, Families and Prisoners by Jolene Babyak
Alcatraz Island: Memories by Donald J. Hurley
Alcatraz from Inside: The Hard Years 1942-1952 by Jim Quillen
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, California in the United States. It was formerly used as a maximum security prison. Today the island is a historic site supervised by the National Park Service.
It is home to the now-abandoned prison, the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools, a seabird colony, and unique views of the coastline.
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
History
Alcatraz was a military fort from 1850 to 1933. The United States Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz were acquired by the United States Department of Justice on October 12, 1933. The island became a federal prison on January 1, 1934. During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held such notable criminals as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. The penitentiary was closed for good on March 21, 1963. The prison closed because it was far more expensive to operate than other prisons of the time. It was easier to build a new, traditional land-bound prison than to pay for all the upkeep and support the Alcatraz prison required.
During its 29 years of operation, the penitentiary never logged any official successful escapes. All attempts were either ultimately unsuccessful or tragic, where the attempters were either shot dead or drowned in the frigid San Francisco Bay waters. Three escapees, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, disappeared from their cells on June 11, 1962. This attempt, popularized in the motion picture Escape from Alcatraz was the most intricate ever devised. Though only some evidence was found that they died in their attempt, they are officially listed as "missing and presumed drowned." It is very likely that they did die in their attempt as, after all these years, no one has surfaced claiming to be or even have seen the escapees.
In 1969, a group of Native Americans attempted to reclaim the land saying that an 1868 federal treaty allowed Native Americans to use all federal territory that the government was not actively using. After nearly two years of occupation, the government forced them off.
The island is also known as The Rock, and it featured in a movie of the same name.
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