Alcatraz is a super max prison that is located in San Francisco. In the prison they put steel bars instead of aluminium and they put barbed wire on all of the fences. They put gun holes so they do not have to risk getting hurt and they put tanks above the cells that drop gas on the prisoners. They also had prison guards in every part that the prisoners could be in such as the movie theater the yard and most of the other places on that island in the San Francisco bay. The hole
In the prison they have a thing called a hole and you went down there if you did not finish your food. You could also go down there for hitting someone. You can go down for a week a month or a year in the pitch black and they did not even …show more content…
By then the brick prison walls were being corroded by the salt water and that meant that the walls could be chipped away. The custodians were allowed to go in places that the other prisoners were not allowed to go into. They escaped by going to areas that other people were not allowed to go they took tools that the custodians used to clean and they dug a hole in the wall. They snuck passed guards and jumped into the cold water they did not make it out of the cold water. Too expensive
Alcatraz was the first supermax prison ever built for the worst criminals alive. It was also in the middle of the ocean and the guards had to live on that island with all of the prisoners. They had to also bring all of the
supplies like the food for all of the prisoners. The supplies had to come on a boat and it eventually got too expensive and they had to close it down.
Tours Now at Alcatraz they do tours and you can look at all of the cells and they tell you about who was in each cell and you can see what their cell looked like. The tours show you the hole and how dark it is in the hole.
When they take you to the prison to tour you have to take a boat and the boat takes 30 minutes to get to the