Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

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The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

EDITOR: On April 13, there was a wonderful article about a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a short ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.