CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Sept. 25, 1937 

* Alcatraz Island prison mutiny
* San Francisco Bay "The Rock"

The front page has a nice banner headline for display: "BEATS WARDEN IN ALCATRAZ" with subhead. A few related photos are on the back page. (see images)
Complete with all 32 pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.

Background: The September 24, 1937 Alcatraz mutiny marked a pivotal turning point in American penology, serving as the first major test of the federal government’s experimental "escape-proof" maximum-security penitentiary. Triggered by unbearable working conditions, rigid discipline, and negligible pay in the prison’s industrial workshops, roughly 100 to 150 inmates orchestrated a massive work strike that quickly escalated when inmate Burton Phillips brutally attacked Warden James A. Johnston in the dining hall, fracturing his jaw and head. Beyond the immediate chaos and the swift, unforgiving suppression that landed ringleaders in D-Block solitary confinement, the strike's primary significance lay in how it cemented Alcatraz’s formidable reputation: it proved that even the nation's most hardened criminals could not dismantle the prison’s regime, directly validating Bureau of Prisons Director Sanford Bates’ vision of total physical and psychological control. Ultimately, this violent uprising reinforced Warden Johnston’s uncompromising zero-tolerance policy, leading to severe privilege rollbacks and permanently tightening security protocols across the island until its eventual closure in 1963.