Meet George Kelly Barnes
This is the mugshot of Alcatraz inmate and gangster George Kelly Barnes. He loved automatic weapons so much that he came to be known as “Machine Gun Kelly”. He spent 17 years in Alcatraz as inmate number 117. He was later transferred to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. There he died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1954.
Meet George Kelly Barnes
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Working At The Rubber Shop
Do you know what you are looking at? The photo below shows prisoners who were assigned to work in the rubber shop in Alcatraz. This photograph goes all the way back to 1955.
Working At The Rubber Shop
