Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay 2km offshore from San Francisco,Californa,USA. The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse,a military fortification,a military prison,and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. Alcatraz island is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the USA. It attrack more than 1 million vistiors each year. I wanted them to keep Martin but they wouldn't.   Submitted By: