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    21°1′31″N 105°50′47″E / 21.02528°N 105.84639°E / 21.02528; 105.84639 The Alcatraz Gang was a group of eleven American prisoners of war (POW) held separately...
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    United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾas] "the gannet") or The Rock, was...
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    The Battle of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary by armed convicts. Two...
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    Alvin Karpis (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    being captured. He also spent the longest time as a federal prisoner at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, serving twenty-six years. Karpis was born to Lithuanian...
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  • Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film directed and co-produced by Don Siegel, written by Richard Tuggle, and starring Clint...
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    needed] Stockdale was one of eleven U.S. military prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang": George Thomas Coker, USN; George G. McKnight, USAF; Jeremiah Denton...
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    transferred to a prison nicknamed "Alcatraz". Here, he became part of a group of American POWs known as the "Alcatraz Gang". The group consisted of George...
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    Arthur Barker (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    while Fred and Karpis planned the gang's crimes. He was arrested and convicted of kidnapping in 1935. Sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1936, he...
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  • were held in solitary for three and four years, respectively. The Alcatraz Gang was a group of eleven POWs who were held separately because of their...
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  • Scooby and the gang investigate Alcatraz prison in order to solve the mystery regarding San Franpsycho, the ghost of a former Alcatraz inmate X-Men: The...
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    sent to Alcatraz in the summer of 1935. Alvin Karpis soon followed upon his own arrest. Many other members of the gang ended up at Alcatraz prison. Doc...
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  • the end of the decade. Cretzer was killed in a failed attempt to escape Alcatraz resulting in the 1946 prison riot. Originally formed by bank robbers Joseph...
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    John Paul Chase (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    he was arrested a month later on December 27, 1934. Chase was sent to Alcatraz where he became one of the longest-serving inmates; (March 31, 1935 – September...
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    Al Capone (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    superficially wounded by fellow Alcatraz inmate James C. Lucas. Due to his good behavior, Capone was permitted to play banjo in the Alcatraz prison band, the Rock...
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  • brutally beaten by North Vietnamese civilians. Storz was a member of the Alcatraz Gang, a group of eleven American prisoners held separately from other POWs...
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  • been captured earlier and imprisoned longer – such as those in the "Alcatraz Gang" – endured even worse treatment than McCain. Under extreme duress, virtually...
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    known as the Alcatraz Gang, a group of prisoners separated from other captives for their resistance to their captors. They were held in "Alcatraz", a special...
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    Joseph Paul Cretzer (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    American bank robber and prisoner at Alcatraz who participated in and was slain in the bloody "Battle of Alcatraz" which took place following a failed...
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    Alcatraz 11 were senior officers, Coker was the youngest and most junior of those isolated from the other POWs. The 11, known as the "Alcatraz Gang"...
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  • Ma Barker (redirect from Barker Gang)
    American criminals who ran the Barker–Karpis Gang during the "public enemy era" when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwestern United States...
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    book, DEFIANT, about eleven extraordinary Vietnam POWs known as the Alcatraz Gang and their wives, who founded the National League of Families. Members...
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    American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations...
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    ratios. The institution is unofficially known as ADX Florence or "the Alcatraz of the Rockies". It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Florence...
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    harboring her husband. Chase was apprehended later and served a term at Alcatraz. Baby Face Nelson and his wife Helen are buried at Saint Joseph's Cemetery...
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    Thomas R. Limerick (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    American criminal, who took part in the third documented escape attempt from Alcatraz Island on the night of May 23, 1938. Thomas Limerick was born on January...
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  • station. Proyecto Alcatraz [es] is a rehabilitation program for youth with behavior problems that has managed to disband at least ten gangs without the use...
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    Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. James A. Johnston - The first warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Paul J. Madigan - The third warden of Alcatraz Federal...
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    Machine Gun Kelly (gangster) (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    Machine Gun Kelly spent his remaining 21 years in prison. During his time at Alcatraz, he got the nickname "Pop Gun Kelly". According to fellow inmate Dale Stamphill...
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  • straight to video in the United States on May 15, 2007. After the New Alcatraz massacre, long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transferred to...
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  • Jeff Fort (category Gang members)
    is an American mobster and former gang kingpin from Chicago, Illinois. Fort co-founded the Black P. Stones gang and is the founder of its El Rukn faction...
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