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50 years after the escape from Alcatraz

Alcatraz Prison occupies an island of the same name in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It's now operated as a historical site and tourist attraction.

Alcatraz Prison occupies an island of the same name in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It’s now operated as a historical site and tourist attraction.  (Matt Campbell / EPA)

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Fifty years after three inmates slipped away from Alcatraz — the wind-battered federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay — on a raft made of raincoats, tantalizing new morsels trickled out Monday to deepen the enduring mystery of their escape.

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