Clarence Anglin

I prayed that he found the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris. He certainly wasn’t a good man, but he did not deserve to be in a prison as horrific as Alcatraz. Clobbering footsteps quickly grew close to me. Allen West had returned, and I knew immediately that the other prisoners…

One of the most infamous prisons in history strategically sits in the San Francisco Bay about 1.25 miles offshore from the city. Alcatraz was home to many notorious convicts and now not just San Francisco’s most popular tourist attraction but the most popular in the country. Before “The Rock” was a prison, it has a very eventful past that makes it such an interesting and appealing island. It was avoided and utilized by the Native Americans, and was the most prominent fortress on the west coast…

prison from 1934 - 1663 to house the worst criminals in the san francisco area. Alcatraz was suppose to be impossible to escape from. altho there is a large number of people that think three people have actually escaped from Alcatraz. Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris were all believed to escape from the high security…

In 1920, prohibition was declared by the government and it was chaos. Crime was a tornado that didn’t die. Criminals didn't have a care in the world. The government had little control over the madness and criminals still did their dirty work in jail. This led to an idea. An insane, harsh idea that would end the toughest criminals and remind them justice still was in power. This idea was an island called Alcatraz. The essay you are about to see will explain the history of what Alcatraz served…

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…

Alcatraz was a maximum security prison that operated on an island near San Francisco from 1934 to 1963. It is a popular tourist attraction today, but it was once known for housing some of the nations most notorious and dangerous criminals such as Al Capone. “The Rock”, as it is sometimes refereed to, was closed down because its expenses of operation became to high. The Rock has a long, dark history as it was also used as a military prison from the 1850s to 1933. It is reported that no inmate…

The Island of cement and bars. Many people see Alcatraz as inescapable, but is it really. If it is then why, why can a normal building that was created by man be that fortified. Alcatraz was “ originally envisioned as a naval defense fortification” the plan was to use this building to protect the harbors from enemy ships (school.eb.com/level/high/article/474403). So as you can imagine a building designed to withstand cannon fire must have some pretty thick skin. This rock of solitude was…

The walls started to get weaker and weaker day by day. It became so weak that John and Clarence Anglin were able to escape by digging through the back walls of their cells with spoons! They managed to get through the walls and escaped but nobody knows if they got to land or not. That isn’t the only thing that went wrong with the security, there…

With the help of brothers John and Clarence Anglin they spent months of careful planning and preparation to escape the infamous “inescapable island.” Morris and the brothers carefully chipped away at the wall around the vents in their cells to remove the covers to hide their tools and materials…

they were swept into the Pacific Ocean. In order to know what happened, they need to know how it was done. Luckily this isn’t a mystery. Frank Lee Morris was sent to Alcatraz, and immediately started to study the layout. He met with John and Clarence Anglin and started to mastermind “The Great Escape”. They took life preserves and used glue to fuse them together. Then they started to take out the vents in their cells so they can escape from the ventilation systems. It took them a few month but…