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    timeout I would always say that this feels like prison, leading myself to the thought of Alcatraz, and how frightening of a place Alcatraz would be to visit, but yet so intriguing on so many levels. Then it hit me, I could just write my I-search paper about Alcatraz. What I Know Alcatraz, known for being one of the greater prisons in the entire world, hosting some of…

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    Have you ever been to the popular San Francisco, California tourist attraction, Alcatraz? Thousands of people visiting the West Coast pass through the park each day to get a taste of what life would be like to be isolated from the outer world for going against the law. The small island is now one of our country’s national parks, but before it became one, it was used by the U.S. Army and as a federal prison that is now famous in history. It didn’t start out as one of the biggest federal prisons…

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    Alcatraz Prison

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    being in a dirty, smelling, cold prison cell with water dripping down the walls from the ceiling and hardly ever seeing daylight. This is what the prisoners in prison experience on a daily bases. Alcatraz was federal prison that was built on a twelve acre, solid rock island exactly one mile from the mainland with no roads or bridges to escape. Alcatraz, a prison in the San Francisco Bay that many famous people went to and dunknown details. Wardens and guards who worked at the prison did not…

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    Escape From Alcatraz A former military prison, 22 acre “Island of the Pelicans” was the perfect place for a “super prison” after WWI. Surrounded by the frigid water from the San Francisco Bay, escape would be unlikely without protection from the water, as hypothermia would set in right away. Yet precisely at the time of 9:30 P.M. Thursday, June 11, 1962, the lights in the harsh prison of Alcatraz went out, the same time they always did. This was the beginning of the most daring and well…

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    Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was one of the most infamous, because of its many dangerous criminals that have called it their home. Alcatraz Island is a small piece of land that is isolated from the great city of San Francisco by a nearly freezing body of water known as San Francisco Bay. From 1934 to 1963 it served, the island was a last for certain criminals such as Al Capone and Robert Stroud (Birdman). Life on the island was very harsh for a criminal with the frigid blowing into the prison…

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    Escape from Alcatraz: Dead or Alive? Isolated and desolate, located in the treacherous waters of the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island was thought to be the perfect spot to build a “super prison.” It opened as a federal penitentiary in August 1934, and the worst of the worst prisoners were sent there if ordinary prisons could not hold them. A prison break endeavored by several of the inmates is considered one of the most intricate and daring escapes ever attempted. The outcome of the 1962…

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    Have you ever heard of,”The Rock.” Prisoners of the worst were sent here to relearn their mistakes they made. Most famous Frank Morris, the escapists of Alcatraz, was the first prisoner to escape the horrible island. The year is 1962, Four of the most popular prisoners are sent to Alcatraz, like Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and the most horrible prisoners are being sent to the most dangerous, and are wishing they never broke the law. prison in the U.S. One day on Alcatraz Island,…

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    Observation Site: Alcatraz It’s two forty in the afternoon and the warm sun is clouded by the grey sky on Pier 33. The San Francisco weather is being its usual self, causing my hair to dance in all directions. While purchasing our tickets for the Alcatraz tour, a sudden call of a Caucasian man with a raspy and dry voice is made, “Two forty from Pier 33 to Alcatraz is now boarding! Final call!” My mom quickly checks the time on her grandma phone and realizes it’s now two forty-five. We sprint to…

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    Though Alcatraz was a famous prison, it has an amazing story behind it. With its beautiful gardens to its famous inmates and mysteries, Alcatraz. It inspires people around the world drawing them to the famous prison. Alcatraz has a fascinating history about it’s origin words to how it became a prison. According to The Federal Bureau of Prisons, the word alcatraz comes from the spanish word “Alcatraces” and he word Alcatraz itself means “pelican” or “strange bird”. Alcatraz is the prison for the…

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    Correctional Facility Paper: Alcatraz Elizabeth Phan Introduction to Corrections July 20, 2017 Look out onto the San Francisco Bay and you see a big rock that is approximately 22 acres with some abandoned architecture on it. Well, that there is Alcatraz Island. Before Alcatraz became the tourist attraction that we know of today, it was used differently throughout the course of California history. First, the light house was placed there and it was used to guide people in and out of…

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