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Alcatraz would be the most famous, on an island in the mouth of the San Francisco Bay. Also, Terminal Island is a federal prison on an island in the Bay of Los Angeles.
Atlanta State Prison, Alcatraz, etc. Please see link below.
The largest maximum security prision in America is the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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Alcatraz was the name of a prison off the the coast of San Francisco in California, USA
The most notable federal prison used in films is possibly Alcatraz, which according to Wikipedia, "...Point Blank (1967). This was the first major motion picture to be filmed on location at Alcatraz Island after the closure of the Federal prison in 1963." You can read more about its history, below.Active State Prisons Used as Film SetsA lovely film titled The Jericho Mile (TV 1979) was notably filmed at Folsom State Prison - 300 Prison Road, Represa, California, USA, according to its IMDb listing.As well, Walk the Line (2005) notes its filming locations from the same source as Tennessee State Penitentiary, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The former Saguaro National Monument, now Saguaro National Park, is located in Arizona, just outside Tucson.
It is a Michigan state prison.
Manson was finally sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C.in 1951. The adjustment was a lot like a move from a State prison to a Federal Prison because there was a lot more structure and control in the National Boys School.
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Howard Dean
Today it's a National Park site, visited by 5,000 people a day. The federal prison closed down in 1963 because it was too expensive to maintain. The island sat idle until 1969, when a group of American Indian activists from many tribes occupied the island in an act of Civil Disobedience until 1971. In 1972, it became a National Park site.