Bulger was 81 years old at the time.
Bulger's first cell,
C-145, was located along the main corridor of Broadway.
Carnes and Bulger were to become good friends during his tenure on Alcatraz.
Just before Bulger went on the lam,
he visited Alcatraz with his then girlfriend Theresa Stanley.
James Bulger was finally transferred off Alcatraz in July of 1962,
only a month following the great escape from Alcatraz.
Bulger received a 20 year sentence,
and was initially sent to the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, in July of 1956.
In 1975, it was alleged that Bulger made a deal with the FBI where he provided
information about the Italian Mafia in exchange for protection from prosecution.
In the case of the killing of James Bulger in 1993 by two ten-year-old defendants,
the judge echoed the media outrage surrounding the case, sentencing both defendants to indefinite detention in a secure unit and describing them as“both cunning and very wicked”.