Paul John Carbo's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1568 (National Archives catalog entry)

Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1568, about 1,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt on 24 May 1962 by direct commitment and a transfer on 6 February 1963 whose destination differs from the notebook page's handwritten header.

Date: 1962-05-24/1963-02-06
Kind: finding-aid
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 117695843
Rights: A catalog description of a Bureau of Prisons inmate case file (Record Group 129), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks the file unit use and access "Unrestricted"; the parent series (NAID 622809) is marked "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright (newspaper clippings) and privacy, so the contents of a file need a page-by-page check.

The catalog title is “CARBO, PAUL JOHN “FRANKIE” - Alcatraz Number 1568.” The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog gives the size as “ca. 1,000 pp.” and lists no digitized pages, so the pages themselves have not been read for this archive; the page count is NARA’s estimate.

The catalog description gives these fields: offense “WILLFUL OBSTRUCTION, DELAY & AFFECTING I/S COMMERCE BY MEANS OF EXTORTION”; received at Alcatraz 05/24/1962; transferred 02/06/1963 to “US PENITENTIARY, MARION.” Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.

The warden’s notebook page carries a handwritten header which, as read from the scan, gives the destination as McNeal rather than Marion. This archive records both.

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