Alcatraz

It would serve as a backup generator "in case Alcatraz is compromised, " he said.

In 1972, Alcatraz became part of the new Golden Gate National Recreation Area and today receives more than a million visitors a year.

Hill said he is already working with the National Park Service, the agency in charge of Alcatraz Island.

Our current crop of prisoners is an elite group, on the whole much more serious offenders than those who were once imprisoned in Alcatraz.

By the time I finished my tea and eggs I was peering at Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge, the ships of San Francisco Bay.

In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates.

Uncle Davie: That was the prison system in Alcatraz.

But we prefer to believe the TV show MythBusters, which concluded in 2003 that the escape from Alcatraz was, in fact, possible.

Alcatraz Cruises is the official carrier for tours to Alcatraz Island.

Alcatraz is a prison themed restaurant in Tokyo, Japan.

Only 36 convicts ever attempted to escape from Alcatraz, but in 1962 three inmates did escape the island and were never found.

The islanders' fear, said their mayor, Bernardino De Rubeis, is that Lampedusa could become a Mediterranean Alcatraz.

Alcatraz closed in 1963 because of high operating costs.

You can stare, for example, at the famous, now empty, prison of Alcatraz.

Joyce I went to the SternGrove concerts twice and over to Alcatraz Island.

Not only is he working on a tan, but he is also planning to build a full-sized pyramid on Alcatraz Island.

All American Indian friend of mine, a veteran, a member of the Indian Nation of Alcatraz, put it to me very succinctly:

Alcatraz Federal Prison | San Francisco, California | June 11, 1962