Alcatraz!

Alcatraz.

Alcatraz. Atlanta. Leavenworth.

That's the island of Alcatraz.

Alcatraz. We roomed together. My name...

I'm heading a new penitentiary. Alcatraz.

Prisoners at Alcatraz also had basic privacy.

Alcatraz has the reputation of being the harshest of all American prisons.

I recently toured Alcatraz, the former US federal prison in San Francisco Bay.

Tom, you know what they used to call Alcatraz in the old days?

I went out to Alcatraz, and I lived on the island for several weeks.

Alcatraz was closed 50 years ago, in 1963, owing to its perceived inhumanity, and the prisoners were transferred elsewhere. Yet I was struck by how much more humane the facility and regime at Alcatraz were compared to Gitmo.

Alcatraz was closed in 1963, but in Bahrain's expanding prisons, many stories like Ali's continue to unfold.

Alcatraz was closed 50 years ago, in 1963, owing to its perceived inhumanity, and the prisoners were transferred elsewhere.

Yet I was struck by how much more humane the facility and regime at Alcatraz were compared to Gitmo.

Likewise, in Alcatraz, prisoners had access to a fully stocked library, monthly visits from loved ones, and mail delivery.

Like Gitmo, Alcatraz was created, in the 1930 s, to house what was then the worst of the worst the Muslim terrorists (or accused terrorists) of their day.

And, of course, the prisoners in Alcatraz had been tried in a court of law, defended by lawyers whose communications with them were privileged, and duly convicted of their crimes.

Your cruise ship, the Harbour King, will circle Alcatraz, a maximumsecurity prison containing the most dangerous criminals in America, and has been the home of such notorious figures as Al Capone,

Frank Lee Morris (September 1, 1926 missing since June 11, 1962) was an American criminal who attempted an escape from Alcatraz prison in June 1962 and was never seen or heard from again.

In the 1995 film adaptation Murder in the First, millions learned the story of Henri Young, who after three years of dehumanizing mistreatment and solitary confinement in California's notorious Alcatraz prison, decided to take another person's life.

I heard about a group of Native Americans who had taken over Alcatraz Island, and a Native American who wanted to give birth on that island, and no other doctor wanted to go and help her give birth.

For starters, prisoners at Alcatraz who broke rules or were violent were punished by being put in D Block, where the cells had no windows at Gitmo, all the cells that journalists are shown lack windows or natural light.

And I raised a hell of a lot of hell. On November 20, 1969, Brightman was involved in the takeover of Alcatraz Island, starting a symbolic 19 month occupation to reclaim Native American land rights and organize a united front for a new movement.

When I was an intern in San Francisco, I heard about a group of Native Americans who had taken over Alcatraz Island, and a Native American who wanted to give birth on that island, and no other doctor wanted to go and help her give birth.