Meyer Harris Cohen's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1518 (National Archives catalog entry)

Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1518, about 7,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt on 28 July 1961 by direct commitment and release on appeal bond on 17 October 1961.

Date: 1961-07-28/1961-10-17
Kind: finding-aid
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 117695896
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 “COHEN, MEYER HARRIS “MICKEY” - Alcatraz Number 1518.” 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. 7,000 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 “INCOME TAX EVASION, FALSE & FRAUDULENT STATEMENTS”; received at Alcatraz 07/28/1961 by direct commitment; transferred 10/17/1961 to “APPEAL BOND.” Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.

The notebook page for the same number records a return to Alcatraz on 05-14-62 and a transfer to Atlanta on 02/26/1963; see the notebook page.

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen, No. 1518Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Meyer Harris Cohen, received at Alcatraz on 28 July 1961 under a 15-year income-tax sentence from the Southern District of California. A copy is stored here.itemComprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates, U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (National Archives series)National Archives series description of the extant Alcatraz case files on about 1,550 men. Only a few file units are digitized. The series' own inclusive dates are an accession span; the bulk dates of the Alcatraz records are 1934 to 1963.itemNational Archives numerical list of former Alcatraz inmates, register numbers 1 to 1576The National Archives at San Francisco's numerical index of former Alcatraz inmates: register numbers 1 through 1576, each with a name. It prints no dates of confinement and no cell.