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turned his life around, becoming a best-selling author who spent his last free years riding motorcycles and gardening, painting and raising two wolves, among other pets, at his home in Fiddletown, an old Gold Rush town in Amador County.” Darwin Coon was also an important presence on the Rock and frequently returned to meet with visitors. He lived in San Francisco with a prominent view of Alcatraz outside his window. He openly shared his story and helped shape the real story of life inside Alcatraz.

Thompson on Alcatraz in July of 1960.

Alcatraz’s youngest Correctional Officer Frank Heaney, with former officer Larry Quilligan in 2008. Both men arrived on Alcatraz during the same period and roommates for a brief period on the island.

Frank Heaney arrived at Alcatraz in 1948. He was hired by Warden Swope when only 21-years of age and became the youngest officer to serve on the island.

In 1972, Congress created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Alcatraz Island was included as part of the new National Park Service unit. The island was opened to the public on October 25, 1973, and it has since become one of the most popular Park Service sites, with more than one million visitors from around the world each year. Today Alcatraz is considered an ecological preserve, and it is home to one of the largest western gull colonies on the northern California coast. The thrill of touring Alcatraz derives both from the awareness of its historical significance, and from the various portrayals of prison life that have been popularized through Hollywood motion pictures. People come from all over the world to meet eye-to-eye with the ghosts of America's toughest criminals. Meanwhile, many of the former inmates are still trying to come to terms with their imprisonment on Alcatraz, and they seek to understand why people would visit a place that represented for them only a monument of pure anguish and deep despair.

“There will always be the need for specialized facilities for the desperados, the irredeemable, and the ruthless, but Alcatraz and all that it had come to mean now belong, we may hope, to history.”

- James V. Bennett, Director of the Bureau of Prisons

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APPENDICIES

ALCATRAZ: INMATE RULES AND REGULATIONS

Alcatraz: Inmate Regulations, 1956

Note: These "Institution Rules & Regulations" were in effect at the United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, during Warden Paul J. Madigan's administration (1955-1961). They were issued to all inmates in the form of a typewritten booklet to be kept in the cell.

REGULATIONS FOR INMATES U.S.P., ALCATRAZ REVISED 1956

INMATE Reg. NUMBER, _________________

This set of Institution Regulations is issued to you as Institutional Equipment. You are required to keep it in your cell at all times.

INDEX

1. GOOD CONDUCT

2. GOOD WORK RECORD

3. GOOD CONDUCT RECORD & GOOD WORK RECORD

4. STATUTORY GOOD TIME, MERITORIOUS GOOD TIME AND INDUSTRIAL GOOD TIME

5. PRIVILEGES

6. DISCIPLINARY ACTION

7. TREATMENT UNIT

8. PROSECUTION IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT

9. FORFEITURE OR WITHHOLDING OF EARNED GOOD TIME, STATUTORY GOOD TIME OR INDUSTRIAL GOOD TIME

10. RESTORATION OF FORFEITED OR WITHHELD GOOD TIME

11. TRANSFER TO OTHER FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS

12. RECOMMENDATION FOR CLEMENCY FOR MILITARY PRISONERS

13. YOUR COMMITTED NAME & REGISTER NUMBER

14. COMMENDATORY REPORTS

15. DISCIPLINARY REPORTS

16. CONTRABAND

17. ATTEMPTING TO BRIBE EMPLOYEES

18. THREATENING, RIDICULING, OR ATTEMPTING TO INTIMIDATE OR ASSAULT OFFICERS, OFFICIALS, EMPLOYEES OR VISITORS

20. RECREATION

21. WORK

22. LOAFING, LOITERING, VISITING OR UNAUTHORIZED ABSENCE FROM WORK

23. YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS OR LEGITIMATE COMPLAINTS

24. INTERVIEW REQUEST SLIPS

25. MONEY

26. PRISONER'S TRUST FUND

27. THE PRISONER'S MAIL BOX

28. DAILY ROUTINES

29. BATH ROOM RULES

30. CELLHOUSE RULES

31. CLASSIFICATION, PAROLE, EDUCATION & SOCIAL MATTERS

32. CLOTHING

33. DINING ROOM RULES

34. HAIRCUTS & SHAVES

35. INTERVIEWS

36. MEDICAL ATTENTION

37. MOVEMENT OF INMATES

38. SUPPLIES

39. WORK REGULATIONS