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1934/1963

National Archives at San Francisco

National Archives numerical list of former Alcatraz inmates, register numbers 1 to 1576

The 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.

Date
1934/1963
Kind
finding-aid
Source
National Archives at San Francisco
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A finding aid of the National Archives and Records Administration, a United States government work. Public domain in the United States, 17 U.S.C. § 105. The underlying inmate files are federal records; access to some pages can be restricted for living people.

This is the companion to the alphabetical list. It runs register numbers 1 to 1576 with the inmate’s name beside each number. Register 1 is “BOLT, FRANK LUCAS”; register 85 is “CAPONE, ALPHONSE “SCARFACE”.” The page repeats the cautions of the alphabetical list about privacy exemptions and the 1934 to 1963 bulk dates, and adds the National Archives’ note that it does not hold records of military prisoners held on Alcatraz before 1934. The two lists were cross-checked number by number for this archive and agree.

The numbers confirmed on this page for men filed in this archive: 85 Capone; 110 Gardner; 117 Kelly; 139 Bailey; 268 Doc Barker; 325 Karpis; 594 Stroud (Robert F.; a different man, Mack Stroud, is 165); 1117 Johnson; 1518 Cohen; 1568 Carbo. The list prints only a name and a number. Dates of confinement come from the warden’s notebook pages and the case-file descriptions, and are labelled as the catalog’s data wherever they are used.

itemNational Archives list of former Alcatraz inmates: Capone, register 85The National Archives at San Francisco lists Alphonse Capone, called Scarface on the list, among former inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, register number 85.itemWarden's Notebook Pages, U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (National Archives series)National Archives series description for the Alcatraz warden's notebook pages: 1,576 item-level records, one per register number, each with a summary form and an identification photograph. The series note lists five pages whose originals are not extant.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.itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Alphonse Capone, No. 85Bureau of Prisons form with Capone's Alcatraz identification photograph, holding a card numbered 85. It records his receipt from Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1934, his tax sentence, parole denied in 1935, and his transfer to Terminal Island in January 1939.itemAlcatraz (Federal Bureau of Prisons history page)The Bureau of Prisons' history page on Alcatraz names Al Capone among the well-known criminals who did time there, and says most of its prisoners were not well-known gangsters.