Alcatraz
Do you know what Alcatraz is and was? Well it was a super prison that held the world’s most dangerous criminals in the world. They made it a super prison because the gangsters couldn’t be held in a regular prison, they would take over and bribe other prisoners and guards. In this essay I will tell you more about Alcatraz and where it is now and why it is how it is today. It was a very secured place and no one could get in or out unless the were let in or out. They were super serious at this prison, no tal- wait you will know when you read this essay.
Alcatraz was much different from regular prisons. It held only the biggest and the baddest gangsters in the world. One of the worst gangsters there was Al Capone. He was the worst and he ended up in there because he had been a drug dealer and he sold illegal alcohol to people. He had been able to take over at regular prisons, got …show more content…
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 was a riot and many prisoners died along with 2 guards. But it was also good because for every 3 prisoners, there was 1 guard when at a regular prison it was 1 guard for every 20 prisoners. The also had the prison gated and it was on an island that is 1 ½ miles away from land with freezing cold water of the San Francisco Bay. It would be so hard to swim all the way to land. They also had to go through metal detectors 8 times a day and were checked 12 times a day to make sure they were still there. The guards counted the heads every night. When the men escaped, they put something to look like head on the pillow so the guards would count the head and get tricked. It worked,
Do you know what Alcatraz is and was? Well it was a super prison that held the world’s most dangerous criminals in the world. They made it a super prison because the gangsters couldn’t be held in a regular prison, they would take over and bribe other prisoners and guards. In this essay I will tell you more about Alcatraz and where it is now and why it is how it is today. It was a very secured place and no one could get in or out unless the were let in or out. They were super serious at this prison, no tal- wait you will know when you read this essay.
Alcatraz was much different from regular prisons. It held only the biggest and the baddest gangsters in the world. One of the worst gangsters there was Al Capone. He was the worst and he ended up in there because he had been a drug dealer and he sold illegal alcohol to people. He had been able to take over at regular prisons, got …show more content…
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 was a riot and many prisoners died along with 2 guards. But it was also good because for every 3 prisoners, there was 1 guard when at a regular prison it was 1 guard for every 20 prisoners. The also had the prison gated and it was on an island that is 1 ½ miles away from land with freezing cold water of the San Francisco Bay. It would be so hard to swim all the way to land. They also had to go through metal detectors 8 times a day and were checked 12 times a day to make sure they were still there. The guards counted the heads every night. When the men escaped, they put something to look like head on the pillow so the guards would count the head and get tricked. It worked,