Escape From Alcatraz! 7 Things You Didn't Know About The Prison Rock 50 Years Later
March 22 2013, Published 6:48 a.m. ET
Even 50 years after the final inmate left the most infamous prison in the world, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay still has a dark allure to thousands of tourists every year.
Once home to the most notorious criminals in history including Al Capone, Robert “Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud, George “Machine Gun” Kelly and James “Whitey” Bulger, the maximum security federal penitentiary finally closed its steel doors on March 21, 1963, after 29 years of being every convicts' worst nightmare, and in celebration of the anniversary Breaking Celebrity News is presenting seven things you didn't know about Alcatraz.
7. Long before it was used to house the scum of the earth, Alcatraz was still considered to be an "evil island" by Native Americans who believed it was cur