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December 16, 1962[edit] John Paul Scott and Darl Lee Parker were the last two prisoners to attempt to escape from Alcatraz. Scott and Parker used a makeshift saw to cut through the bars on a kitchen window in the cell house, then ran to the edge of the island and jumped into the water.
American Indian Inmates of the U.S. Army on the Rock. On January 4, 1895, the San Francisco Call published a story under the headline A Batch of Apaches.. The article stated, Nineteen murderous-looking Apache Indians were landed at Alcatraz island yesterday morning.. The article misidentified the 19 Hopi men who had been arrested at Orayvi the previous November.