After a wild crime spree of robbery and kidnapping in 1942, escaped San Quentin prisoner Jim Quillen was sentenced to 45 years and sent to Alcatraz on Aug. 28 where he became prisoner #586. When he arrived on Alcatraz, he was an angry …

1997年8月11日 · Jim Quillen almost went insane during his 10-year incarceration at Alcatraz, though he notes that it hardly makes him unique: The prison, after all, was designed for that express purpose.

1998年10月6日 · Learn more about managing a memorial . A former inmate of Alcatraz who served time from 1942 to 1952 for kidnapping and robbery. Retired in the 80s as a X-Ray lab technician, he is also the author of the book "Alcatraz: from inside"

2016年1月4日 · JIM QUILLEN, born in 1919, had a difficult childhood; by the time he was an adolescent, he was regularly getting into serious trouble. At twenty-two -- chained at the wrists and sentenced to...

1991年1月1日 · 1942, twenty two year old Jim Quillen is on the run from San Quentin prison. He has been serving 18 months for an armed robbery, he thinks he has made a lucky escape until he is caught and sentenced to 45 years in the federal prison of Alcatraz, an ex military base in San Francisco Bay and branded escape proof.

2015年1月14日 · But newly published memoirs of Jim Quillen, one of 26 convicts caught in the crossfire, claim the toll could easily have been higher as guards indiscriminately threw grenades to kill as many...

2020年8月26日 · Jim Quillen, number 586: a runaway, problem child and petty thief, was jailed several times before his 20th birthday. In August 1942 after another botched burglary attempt, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to imprisonment on Alcatraz island.

2015年12月2日 · Jim Quillen, AZ586 – a runaway, problem child and petty thief – was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in …