PHOTO COLLECTION: Alcatraz prison photos from the archive

FILE – Senior officer Melvin Kidney works within a 2-inch laminated bullet proof glass at the control center of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, March 14, 1956. He supervises all communications and has custody of arms, ammunition, tear gas, etc. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – One of three cell tiers of individual cells at the main block of the Alcatraz Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 15, 1956. (AP Photo)

FILE – A typical prison menu is posted over the cafeteria-style table where prisoners receive their food at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – Prison guard Jim Lowrie stands an empty area of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary after the last prisoners were transferred to other prisons, on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, California, March 21, 1963. (AP Photo, File)

FILE – The hospital operating room is photographed through the glass of a locked door at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary prison in the San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – A rifle grenade fired by a soldier explodes at an already shattered and pock marked window at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary where rioting prisoners are cornered after killing two guards and wounding 15, in San Francisco Bay, California, May 3, 1946. (AP Photo/Jack Rice, File

FILE – Captain E.E. Rychner of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary stands guard on one of the several catwalks that surround the prison area in the San Francisco Bay in California, March 13, 1956. At right is the recreation yard with high stone wall topped by wire. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – The cell of a prisoner permitted to make oil paintings at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 16, 1956. (AP Photo, File)

FILE – Warden P.J. Madigan, top right, gives a press conference inside his office at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. G. Frederick Mullen, director of information, U. S. Dept. of Justice, sits at top center. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – A tunnel under the main cellblock of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, June 1, 1973. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

FILE – The number two gun tower stands on the west side of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary next to the prison’s recreation yard on Alcatraz island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – Dock officer George Black operates controls of the metal detector through visitors to the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary must pass on Alcatraz island in the San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – Mae Capone, the wife of Al Capone, covers her face on the way to visit her husband at the hospital inside the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay, California, March 1, 1936. Al Capone was suffering a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis. (AP Photo, File)

FILE – The administration building of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is photographed through the doorway of the warden’s home on the south end of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 13, 1956. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett, File)

FILE – Native Americans play ball at the main dock during their occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, Nov. 26, 1969. (AP Photo/File)

FILE – Darwin Coon, a former inmate who spent four years at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for bank robbery, sits in his former cell at the prison in the San Francisco Bay, California, April 30, 2007. Coon wrote a book about his experiences on the island and was among the last inmates to the leave the island in 1962. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

FILE – An exhibit about a 1962 prison escape made famous in the movie, Escape from Alcatraz, is exhibited in the new cell house museum store on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, California, April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

FILE – Visitors look into the cells of the main cell block during a night tour of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay, California, July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)