The Rock’s New Role

According to the blog Nobody Move!, it was on this date in 1934 that “the first inmates began to arrive at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island [in San Francisco Bay]. Alcatraz, previously home to a military prison, was converted for use by the U.S. Department of Justice to house its most dangerous inmates. Early residents of the federal prison include Al Capone, George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly, Alvin Karpis, and Robert ‘The Birdman of Alcatraz’ Stroud.”