What do James “Whitey” Bulger, Al “Scarface” Capone, and George Celino “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes all have in common? The first thing that comes to mind is they are all leaders of Crime families and gangs, but they were all prisoners of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the country if not the world for what happened there and for its notorious prisoners. “The Escape of Alcatraz”, the LSD trails, and the life on “Uncle Sam’s Devil Island” are all important parts of the history of the prison. This island had the worst of the worst and it spread everyone crazy to each other and greatly hurt the mental state of the inmates who made parole. Alcatraz was originally made as a military prison in the 1860’s
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There are different theories discussing whether or not the escapees had survived such a historic event. This is because of the weather the night of the escape, the water of San Francisco Bay, and the overall construction of the raft that they took to escape from the Alcatraz. On June 11th, 1962 Frank Lee Morris, John William Anglin, and Clarence Anglin finally put plans in action for the greatest escape in history. There was a fourth person in the grand scheme, but later backed out and did not dig out. (Alctraz History, 2016) All of the thirty-six other attempts have been ruled unsuccessful between being recaptured, shot, drowning, or pronounced missing and presumed dead. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) Despite all of that, those three are still being searched to this day. The case was finally closed after seventeen years. The FBI states that they had most likely drowned in the frigid waters of the bay, however the U.S. Marshals Service still has an active warrant out for their arrest. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) The design of the rafts had taken great skill to make an honest attempt at making it off the island. They made a 6ft by 14ft raft out of fifty raincoats. They avoided detection at bed check by making papier-mâché masks and placed them under their blankets. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) It is unknown still till this day what ever happened to those men it is still a great escape. Alcatraz was an island of evil that criminals became more insane off of it. The life that they were subjected to, the illegal testing, and just the overall experience of incarceration took the concept of crazy to a whole new level. Who knows what Whitey Bulger or Al Capone would have done had they not been sent to that
There are different theories discussing whether or not the escapees had survived such a historic event. This is because of the weather the night of the escape, the water of San Francisco Bay, and the overall construction of the raft that they took to escape from the Alcatraz. On June 11th, 1962 Frank Lee Morris, John William Anglin, and Clarence Anglin finally put plans in action for the greatest escape in history. There was a fourth person in the grand scheme, but later backed out and did not dig out. (Alctraz History, 2016) All of the thirty-six other attempts have been ruled unsuccessful between being recaptured, shot, drowning, or pronounced missing and presumed dead. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) Despite all of that, those three are still being searched to this day. The case was finally closed after seventeen years. The FBI states that they had most likely drowned in the frigid waters of the bay, however the U.S. Marshals Service still has an active warrant out for their arrest. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) The design of the rafts had taken great skill to make an honest attempt at making it off the island. They made a 6ft by 14ft raft out of fifty raincoats. They avoided detection at bed check by making papier-mâché masks and placed them under their blankets. (Alcatraz Escape, 2016) It is unknown still till this day what ever happened to those men it is still a great escape. Alcatraz was an island of evil that criminals became more insane off of it. The life that they were subjected to, the illegal testing, and just the overall experience of incarceration took the concept of crazy to a whole new level. Who knows what Whitey Bulger or Al Capone would have done had they not been sent to that