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Alcatraz’s Escapes Highlight Last Chapter in Probation Era
The article recounts Alcatraz Island’s erosion and planned phaseout by 1963 after high-profile jailbreaks in 1962 and 1963. It notes former inmates Morris and the Anglin brothers, John Paul Scott, and Carl Dee Parker, with others presumed drowned. Warden Blackwell cites cost and decay as factors, while Mayor George Christopher envisions Alcatraz as a tourist draw.
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James V. Bennett
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Congress
Alcatraz
Daring Bank
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John
Clarence Anglin
Bennett
John Paul Scott
Carl Dee Parker
Morris
the Anglins
Scott
Parker
Olin G. Blackwell
Alcatrez
Great Plains
Arthur “Doc” Barker
Anglins
Ralph Roe
Ted Cole
Roe
Cole