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23 Nov 2009, 3:51 pm by Greg Guedel
(Britannica.com) November marks 40 years since Native American activists seized the former federal island penitentiary of Alcatraz and used it to raise the national consciousness on issues facing Native communities. [read post]
25 May 2011, 10:00 am by Steven
That complex replaced Alcatraz when it closed in 1963. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 5:46 pm by David Ferriero
Mancuso spent time in the United States Penitentiaries in Lewisburg, Fort Leavenworth, Alcatraz, and Atlanta. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 11:40 am by Steve Shiffrin
USP Marion, on the other hand, is a former “Supermax” prison that was built in the early 1960s as a replacement for Alcatraz. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 11:40 am by Steve Shiffrin
USP Marion, on the other hand, is a former “Supermax” prison that was built in the early 1960s as a replacement for Alcatraz. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 2:13 pm by David Ferriero
The files include Robert Stroud–aka the “Birdman of Alcatraz,” George “Machine Gun” Kelly, boxer Jack Johnson, labor leader “Big Bill” Haywood, gambler Nicky Aronstein, and polar explorer Dr. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 1:06 pm by John Floyd
” Most of its initial 500 inmates were former Alcatraz residents. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 8:46 am by Greg Guedel
The protest, which lasted nearly a month, mirrored the occupation of the abandoned penitentiary at Alcatraz in 1969. [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
In operation since 1994, the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum—known as “the ADX”—incarcerates nearly four hundred people in federal custody in near-total isolation. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 11:41 pm by Jill Michaux, Kansas Bankruptcy Attorney
Remember that Chicago mobster Al Capone went to Alcatraz penitentiary for tax evasion (not reporting income from illegal enterprises) not his gangland violence. [read post]