Alcatraz Island Flora

Gardens planted by families of the original Army post, and later by families of the prison guards, fell [...]

Alcatraz Island Native American occupation

Beginning on November 20, 1969, a group of Native Americans called United Indians of All Tribes, mostly college [...]

Alcatraz Island Post-prison years

Because the penitentiary cost much more to operate than other prisons (nearly $10 per prisoner per day, as [...]

Alcatraz Island History

The first Spaniard to document the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who charted San Francisco [...]