Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the island it stands on can be seen from above. The infamous prison closed on March 21, 1963, after 29 years of operation. The main cell block that once housed ...

Ai has studied pictures ... was that Alcatraz would be a prison of maximum-security custody with minimum privileges,” he wrote in his 1949 memoir. Each single-person cell, outfitted with a ...