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AKA: United Stated Federal Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - military buildings; built works - social and civic buildings - correctional institutions - prisons
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1909-1911
The building, housing 600 cells, cost $250,000 when built by U.S. Army military prisoners in 1909-1911; it became a federal penitentiary for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in 1934, and served in that capacity until 1963;
A new disciplinary wing was designed for troublesome prisoners, known as the "Hole," located in D-Block or what was euphemistically called the "Special Treatment Unit;
PCAD id: 4123
