Alcatraz Penitentiary was the country's premiere maximum-security prison at the time before closing on March ... as he arrived at Alcatraz in 1961. The night after he, his brother Clarence ...

Portrait by Jasper James. Photo-illustration: Bill Whitcher; Alcatraz ... their beds to divert the night-shift guards, they climbed through service shafts out of the prison—then pushed off ...