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Alcatraz Island (/ ˈ æ l k ə ˌ t r æ z /) 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.
The island became adapted and used as a prison of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized and security increased. Given this high security and the island's location in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay , prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's most ...
Aerial view of Alcatraz, a former island prison near San Francisco, California 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 ...
West was transferred to McNeil Island, Washington after Alcatraz was deactivated in 1963, then back to Atlanta Penitentiary. After serving his sentence, followed by two additional sentences in Georgia and Florida, he was released in 1967, only to be arrested again in Florida the following year on charges of grand larceny.
Prison from across river, c. 1913. When Camp Long was dismantled in 1901, the site became available for a naval prison. Constructed between 1905 and 1908, the brig was modeled after the Fort Alcatraz military prison on Alcatraz Island with tidal currents to deter escape.
Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [1] [2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [3] that contains New York City's largest jail. [4] [5]Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to ...
After a failed uprising at Grahamstown in 1819, the fifth of the Xhosa Wars, the British colonial government sentenced African leader Makanda Nxele to life imprisonment on the island. [12] He drowned on the shores of Table Bay after escaping the prison. [13] [14] The island was also used as a leper colony and animal quarantine station. [15]