ALCATRAZ

I've always been interested in things like this island, Alcatraz and his prison. Alcatraz is an island located in San Francisco bay offshore from San Francisco, California. In this island there was a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868) and finally a federal prison (1933-1963). Now it is a national recreation area.

I'm gonna talk about the Alcatraz federal penitenciary (the prison). 

It was a three-storey cellhouse included the main four blocks of the jail, A-Block, B-Block, C-Block, and D-Block (it was where the most inmates went, and the last 5 cells were designated as "The hole", where the worst prisioners were sent for periods of punishment). The cells were primitive and without privacy, with a bed and a blanket, a desk, a washbasin and toilet on the back wall, and a few furnishings. The dining hall and kitchen where outside the building in an extended part where both prisoners and staff would eat three meals a day together. 

The main prison building was built in 1910–12 during its time as a United States Army military prison.  The island became a prison of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized to meet the requirements of a top-notch security prison. Given this high security and the location of Alcatraz in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, the prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's strongest prison. Alcatraz was designed to hold the most dangerous prisoners in the world. Alcatraz housed some 1,576 of America's most ruthless criminals including Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz"),George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, among others.. A total of 36 prisoners made 14 escape attempts during the 29 years of the prison's existence. There was "the battle of Alcatraz" which was the most notable escape attempt in may 1946. 

In 11th June 1962, Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin,carried out the most famous escape ever done. Behind the prisoners' cells in B-block, there was an unguarded utility corridor. The prisoners, made a hole in the damp cement using a metal spoon with a 10 cent coin sticked in it, and a drill (they use the drill during the music hour). The progress was covered by false walls, to trick the guards.
The escaped route was through the ventilation channel. In their beds, they left papier-mache dummies, with hair from the barbershop. They always did a raft with 50 raincoats. The police discovered, the raft and other objects from the prisoners  nearby Angel island.The official report includes that the prisoner drowned in the cold waters of the bay. However there are some reports that says that there was an ilegal smallboat in a bay.