This is the entrance to the receiving station (former Terminal Island Prison) on April 18, 1942. Through these automatic-locking doors, which once admitted such gangsters as Al Capone, have passed thousands of sailors and marines en route to permanent ship or shore assignments. The station, which is the first prison ever commissioned as a receiving ship, has a capacity of 2500 men.
Terminal Island Federal Prison (Los Angeles, Calif.) United States.--Navy Prisons--California--Terminal Island Sailors--United States World War, 1939-1945 Terminal Island (Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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