Alcatraz Inmate. A full-blooded Choctaw Indian, Carnes was arrested in 1943 at the age of 16 for murder and was sentenced to life in prison. In 1945, he escaped, stole a car and kidnapped its driver before crossing state lines. When he was re-captured, he was given another 99 years and sent to Leavenworth Prison. After another failed escape attempt that same year, he was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. At age 18, he was the youngest inmate ever sent to Alcatraz. On the island he soon became involved in planning an escape attempt with fellow inmates Bernard Coy, Joseph Cretzer, Marvin Hubbard, Miran Thompson, and Sam Shockley. On May 2, 1946, the six inmates set their plans in motion and quickly took over the main cellblock and locked up most of the prison's on-duty guards. In what became known as the "Battle of Alcatraz," the two-day fight came to an end after Carnes, Thompson, and Shockley retreated to their cells to be captured while Coy, Cretzer, and Hubbard were shot and killed in a utility corridor. In addition to the three inmates, prison guards Harold Stites and William Miller were also killed. For their roles in the deaths of the two guards, Thompson and Shockley were both sentenced to death and were executed in 1948 while Carnes received another 99 years. Carnes returned to Alcatraz where he stayed until the prison was closed in 1963. During the 1970s he was paroled but sent back to prison twice for parole violations, and was still doing time when he died at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. Originally buried in an unmarked grave in Springfield, his body was later moved to his native Oklahoma by his friend and former Alcatraz inmate, James "Whitey" Bulger.