Alcatraz When a law was passed that made making and selling alcohol illegal, it just made them do it more. When the Prohibition act was passed, the amount of bars went up. The weird thing was all of them were illegal. It was the people running them that made police create Alcatraz. Alcatraz was a prison, but Alcatraz wasn't like any everyday prison. What was different was the security, it had the best security of its time because it housed the worst of the worst. It had the best guards that lived on the Rock. Their kids even went to school there! Also, the prison itself was super strong. The prison had steel boxes on the wall that people with machine guns sat in and shot escaping prisoners through small holes. As you can see, Alcatraz was
