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The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz English: /ÃËælkÃâ¢ÃÅtræz/, Spanish: [alkaÃËtþas] `the gasset` or The Rock was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles 2.01 km off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States, the site of a fort since the 1850s; the main prison building was built in 1910ââ¬â1912 as a United States Army military prison. |
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