Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc

Milton Daniel Beacher M.D. arrived on Alcatraz Island a naïve and compassionate young doctor. It was April 26 1937. One year later he left with a journal. It chronicled the suicides discipline problems force feedings and details of a long strike and successful escape. He also penned conversations with famous prisoners like Al Capone Alvin Karpis and Machine Gun Kelly. Dr. Beacher later wove the journal into a vivid account of life on the Rock. Befriended by some prisoners he included their first-person narratives and original prisoner poetry. His daughter Dianne Beacher Perfit published her fathers journal in 2001.