Alcatraz inmates

There is a reason Alcatraz was called Uncle Sam’s Devil Island, and that’s because Alcatraz was a prison for the worst of the worst criminals in the United States. Head counts were taken every night in the dark. Most people thought that no one could ever escape the super prison, but they thought wrong. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers all escaped from this brutal prison. There are several reasons why these inmates were able to escape alive. One reason is that the escapees were very clever.…

“The Rock”? If you didn't know Alcatraz A.K.A, “The Rock” was home to many of the world's most famous criminals. Three of those were the Anglin Brothers and Frank Morris. There is a lot of theories of did or did they not survive. My person opinion is that I think they escaped. Here are the reasons and evidence on why I think they escaped. On the night of June 11, 1962 the Anglin Brothers and Frank Morris set out to do what had never been done before. Escape from Alcatraz. According to…

of the most harmful aspects is the use of solitary confinement. Inmates who are kept under solitary confinement reside in a single room without human interaction for twenty-three hours a day. The sentencing of solitary…

vacation. In Oslo, Norway lies a minimum-security prison, Bastoy, where felons hold keys to their own locks. Here, Vala and 114 other inmates who have been convicted for malicious acts such as murder, rape and drug trafficking, are free to enjoy saunas, go horseback riding or even spend the day sun tanning at the beach. In fact,…

Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz Island. His father has just been upgraded to Associate Warden. Moose hangs out with his friends Piper, Annie, Jimmy and Theresa whose parents also work at the prison. Life isn’t easy for Moose. He knows his father’s safety means a lot because of where he works. And he knows he has to protect and care for his older sister. Natalie, who is autistic. He feels like he needs to be able to help with everything. even though he is just a 13-year-old kid.When his…

Where by violent or troublesome inmates are collectively housed. Offenders in supermax are restricted from movement and are confined to a cell twenty-three hours a day, with one hour of exercise. Almost half of the wardens of supermax prisons stated that there the goal of supermax was punitive in nature and served as a deterrent to other inmates as well as reducing recidivism. Wardens were surveyed, and most agreed that supermax prisons…

If solitary confinement was banned inmates would make a better recovery, and leave not having any or as many issues. Solitary confinement is not only bad for the inmate, but also for society when they leave if they have not made any improvement. If someone who has been in solitary confinement leaves and has not changed they will go back to their old habits…

public eye. At his time in Alcatraz in particular, Theresa Capone wrote a letter to a man on the Alcatraz prison board, Mr. Batis, begging him to transfer Al into another prison or ward. Around the time she wrote the letter, she had been given word that her son had been treated quite poorly by other inmates on more than one occasion. She had a great amount of anxiety surrounding this stating in her letter, "I certainly feel that he is not safe in such a place as Alcatraz.... This is not the…

after Doriane was born, her family had to move because of the Germans. They then fled to the Netherlands to be safer. After a few years Dorian's mom, brother and her moved to Amsterdam where the city soon fell under attack. Her father was already in Alcatraz and her mother was taken to Bergen-Belsen to a labor camp. With their parents gone, someone took them through the streets at night to an…

tour of the expansive grounds, I peered out a window to get a glimpse of the city skyline. I noticed something. You could almost hear the sounds of the city streets. I am sure that when the jail was still running, these sounds must have tortured the inmates at night as they could not be with these free people only a short distance away. While touring the jail cells, I also felt a great sense of tension. It was almost as if the walls of the correctional facility were still littered with the…