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Alcatraz Island (/ ˈælkəˌtræz /) is a small island 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. [1] The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal ...
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...
Hawaii State prisons. Halawa Correctional Facility – Aiea. Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility – Kailua. Kulani Correctional Facility – Hilo (inmate capacity approx. 200) [1] Waiawa Correctional Facility – Waipahu (inmate capacity 334) Women's Community Correctional Center – Kailua [2] (inmate capacity 50)
Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) Ashecliffe Hospital. Boston Harbor Islands. Shutter Island (novel) (2003) Shutter Island (film) (2010) Azkaban Prison. North Sea, Britain. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Bernard Coy. Sam Shockley. Frank Morris. Clarence Anglin. William G Baker. 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 ...
Plan of Spike Island, Ireland. The deposed emperor Napoleon on Saint Helena; he spent the last 6 years of his life as a prisoner there. A prison island is an island housing a prison. Islands have often been used as sites of prisons throughout history due to their natural isolation preventing escape. [1][2]
Part of the jail is incorporated into the King George Inn, which includes a museum and artifacts from its time as a working jail. [2] Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. Beloozero. Vologda Oblast. Russia. Prison. Kosciusko County Jail Museum. Warsaw.
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama