Better known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz,” Robert Stroud ranks high on the island prison’s list of most famous ... before committing suicide in 1940. The guards considered George “The ...

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ... Despite a massive manhunt involving the ...