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Henri Theodore Young (born June 20, 1911) was a convicted bank robber and murderer who, while serving one of a series of prison terms, attempted a 1939 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary with four other inmates. Two escapees were shot, and one died of his wounds; all surviving were quickly recaptured. Two at least, Young and Rufus McCain, received sentences of solitary confinement, and served them at Alcatraz for a period a few months (until autumn 1939). A little over a year after his reentering the Alcatraz general prison population (December 1940), Young murdered fellow escapee McCain; no apparent motive was ever being disclosed. Young's subsequent trial featured a spirited, creative defense that put Alcatraz and the penal system on trial, leading to questions about how the prison was run. Young was transferred from Alcatraz to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, in 1948, and then to Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla on completion of his federal sentence, to begin a life sentence for the 1933 murder conviction. Young "jumped parole" in 1972 after release from Walla Walla, with his stated whereabouts reported as "unknown". Were he still to be alive at end of 2015, he would be 104 years old. Henri Young is perhaps best known in relation to the highly fictionalized character of the same name appearing in the 1995 film ''Murder in the First'' (1995), in which he was portrayed by Kevin Bacon. ==Life== Young became a bank robber and was known for aggressively taking hostages. In 1933, he committed and was convicted of murder.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/rs3.htm )〕 After spending time in prisons in Washington state and Montana,〔 he was sent to the federal prison on Alcatraz Island. On the night of January 13, 1939, Young, with prisoners Rufus McCain, Arthur Barker, Dale Stamphill, and William Martin, attempted to escape. Martin, Young, and McCain surrendered, while Barker and Stamphill refused to surrender and were subsequently shot. Barker eventually died from his injuries.〔〔 Young and McCain were each allegedly sentenced to long terms in solitary confinement, but they were back in the prison's general population within months. A year later, Young killed Rufus McCain by plunging a spoon into his neck; he never revealed his motive.〔 At his trial for McCain's murder Young and his attorney argued that the harsh system at Alcatraz had brutalized and dehumanized him. According to the ''San Francisco Examiner'', "Emphasis which (defense ) repeatedly laid on the fact that Young was in isolation or solitary confinement for more than three years—and that he drove his knife into McCain’s abdomen just eleven days after release from such confinement, made it clear that the defense hopes to show not only that Young was “punch drunk” but that the punches were administered by the Alcatraz 'system'”, where both of the historical assertions were inaccurate.〔 Describing conditions in solitary confinement Young stated: In 1954 Young was transferred to the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla to begin a life sentence for the murder conviction in 1933.〔 He was released from Washington State Penitentiary in 1972, at age 61; he "jumped parole and, according to Washington State authorities, his whereabouts are unknown."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henri Young」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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