Don DeNevi Photograph Collection of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1963.

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Don DeNevi Photograph Collection of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1963.

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This collection consists of 78 slide transparencies and 94 photoprints of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and inmates, 1934-1963. The slides are part of presentation on the 1946 riot and 1962 escape. Photographs taken by Federal Bureau of Investigation, Associated Press and other sources.

216 photographs.

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United States. Bureau of Prisons

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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was created by the Act of May 14, 1930 (ch.274,- 46 Stat. 325) and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The mission of the Bureau of Prisons was to maintain secure, safe, and humane correctional institutions for individuals placed in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General; to develop and operate correctional programs that seek a balanced application of the concepts of punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation; and provide, primarily through t...

United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California

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DeNevi, Don, 1937-

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Donald DeNevi was born in Stockton, California, where his father ran a hardware store. Seeing the Stanley Kramer film “My Six Convicts” at the age of 14 incited a life-long fascination with the psychology of imprisonment and the viability of rehabilitation. In the late 1950s, he interned as a teacher at a prison near Stockton before graduating from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in History. He continued his education at U.C. Berkeley, from which he received his Ph. D in the earl...