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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈ æ l k ə ˌ t r æ z /, 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.
John William Anglin (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence Anglin (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia.Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more ...
Loki Season 2's Alcatraz escape is inspired by a real-life prison break. Here's the true story behind Casey's escape from Alcatraz in Episode 5.
The Rock, on the other hand, just depicts life in Alcatraz. [58] In the 2003 video game Hulk, Alcatraz is the location of a secret base of operations called Freehold for the supervillain Leader. In the novel The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (part of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series), Alcatraz serves as the prison of the ...
The 1962 escape from Alcatraz by three prisoners immediately became the stuff of legend – and quickly film – that has never been fully explained. A new book about brothers John and Clarence ...
The U.S. Marshals Service has released age-progressed images of three men who escaped the notorious Alcatraz prison more than 60 years ago. Frank Morris as well as brothers Clarence and John ...
In the game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3, several hostages must be rescued from Alcatraz Prison. In the video game, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002), the island is featured as a playable level and has many features of the real Alcatraz. The video game Urban Strike features Alcatraz as one of the secret bases of main antagonist H. R. Malone.
Open from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was thought to house some of America’s most ruthless criminals. But it was also home to the young families of guards who patrolled the prison.