Crime Lords Alcatraz

Alcatraz is a very popular tourist site. But why was it required? Prohibition of alcohol mad Gangsters and overall crime lords. This essay will explain the history of Alcatraz, why it had to close and some of the ghosts still lurking in the shadows. Alcatraz was different than other prisons because the Rock was made specifically for the worst gangsters, crime lords, robbers, murderers, psychopaths and others. Additionally, Alcatraz’s security was an enormous improvement than that of other prisons. Alcatraz couldn’t let its prisoners think that they were in charge of anything-not even their own sanity. People began questioning Alcatraz’s security when prisoners began to escape. One escape had made the public extremely doubtful. The escapees
Visitors and employees have reported feeling a raw coldness and have claimed that at times a sudden 'intensity' can be felt from the cell. Tales have been told of an event in the 1940s when a prisoner, locked in 14D screamed throughout the night that a creature with glowing eyes was killing him. The next day guards found the inmate strangled to death in the cell. No one ever claimed responsibility for the convict's death. However, the next day, when doing head counts, the guards counted one too many prisoners. Some of the guards claimed to see the strangled convict in line with the other inmates, but only for a second before he vanished mysteriously. Before the inmate had ever been in cell 14D, a much more insane prisoner had inhabited it. Rufus McCain was stabbed by his failed-escape-attempt partner, Henri Young. They each spent 22 months in solitary confinement after attempting to escape Alcatraz. Once they were allowed to go back into their regular cells, they were given separate jobs. Henri was put into the furniture section, and Rufus into the tailoring section. Henri had taken a spoon from lunch, ran down to Rufus and stabbed him in the neck with the handle of the spoon. Rufus spent 5 hours dying of shock, blood loss and an overall grueling
He played the banjo for the prison band so that he wouldn’t go insane. It didn’t quite work that well however, because of his three stretches in the “Hole”, Capone had already began to go mentally ill. Capone later got permission to instead of practicing his banjo in the Recreation Yard, the men’s bathroom in fear of being killed if he went into other prisoner’s sights for too long. Capone died a few years after being released from Alcatraz, but people have reported hearing his banjo being played in the halls, showers, and even when you enter the building that once held the most notorious criminals in the