The three prisoners that escaped from Alcatraz (L-R): Clarence and John Anglin, and Frank Morris.

Al Capone in Alcatraz: How Public Enemy No. 1 Spent His Time in the Famous Prison

The commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Alcatraz as a federal prison. The commemoration organizers plan to use the occasion to raise funds to repair island's the old lighthouse keeper?s home and the social club for families, both damaged in the Indian uprisings of the early 1970s. So both structures might be good candidates to shoot.

Prison stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, American Civil War, 1861-1865. During the summer of 1864, 32,899 Union (northern) prisoners were confined here. In the National Cemetery at Andersonville, 12,912 who did not survive are buried.

Engraving depicting the HMS Jersey, a 60 gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 June 1736, perhaps most noted for her service as a prison ship during the American Revolutionary War, 1832.

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