Devil's Island: The Escape Of Alcatraz

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There are many theories of the Aglin brothers and Frank Morris escaping Alcatraz, and no one knows if they are dead or alive, but I say they are alive because of great evidence I will be presenting. Alcatraz, also known as the “the Rock” or “Uncle Sam’s Devil's Island” is a high security prison that keeps the worst criminals, guards would take the worst criminals in the U.S.A. and take them on a boat to Alcatraz. But they didn't just put them on a boat, they put them on iron train cars and put them on a ferry and drove them to Alcatraz Island, to put them in the most secure prison in America. Many men who had tried to escape, drown in the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay. The most famous escape of Alcatraz is the escape of Allen West,

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