| Events | Docu-Links | ||
| Mail-robber Roy Gardner is released. | |||
| Frank Gouker writes a letter to Warden Johnston, warning him about a potential break-out by Arthur "Doc" Barker* and others. | Gouker's Letter | ||
| Bryan Conway's "20 Months in Alcatraz" appears in The Saturday Evening Post. | |||
| John Paul Chase, partner of "Baby Face Nelson", is taken to New York as a material witness against two Reno underworld figures. He returns uneventfully. | Arrangements for Chase | ||
| The Bureau of Prisons contracts out for the installation of tool-proof window guards along the seaward side of the Model Industries Building. | Specifications for Tool-Proof Steel Bars | ||
| Chief Medical Officer George Hess is transferred to Terminal Island Jail. Dr. Romney M. Ritchey comes from McNeil Island to replace him. | |||
| The U.S. Supreme Court rules that prisoners in federal felony trials are entitled to a court appointed lawyer if they cannot otherwise afford one. Many Alcatraz prisoners compose writs of habeas corpus with a mind to earning their release. | Johnson vs. Zerbst Decision | ||
| Whitney "Rufus" Franklin leads an escape attempt over the roof of the Model Industries Building. Officer Royal Cline and convict Limmerick are killed in the attempt. | |||
| Al Capone develops paresis of the brain due to untreated syphilis. | Al Capone's Health | ||
| Sam Shockley arrives on Alcatraz. | |||
| Anthony Turano calls Warden Johnston Alcatraz's "duly-constituted Torquemada" in The American Mercury, an anti-New Deal digest. | |||
| The prison's annual report shows that 53.2 per cent of all prisoners are working in the industries; 31 out of 52 Junior Officers receive $1,920 annual salary. | |||
| P.W. "Pet" Reed's "Murder on Alcatraz" is published in The Examiner. | |||
| Al Capone is sent to Terminal Island to finish the last year of his sentence. | |||
| * designates extensive inmate biographies additional bios in preparation | |||