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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 acknowledged attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates (two, Joseph Cretzer and Sam Shockley, tried twice). Officially, every escape attempt failed, and most participants were either killed or quickly re-captured.
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.