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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.
The facility is perhaps most famous for its forbidding location, isolated on a rocky island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. In the three decades that Alcatraz was in operation, there were only 14 escape attempts involving 36 men, according to the FBI.