Alcatraz Prison

Alcatraz Prison

The prison of Alcatraz was the highest security prison in the world because of the money and time that was spent to make it that way. Over $250,000 was spent to make the prison completely inescapable. To start out, there were over fifty prison guards that carried machine guns that are able to shoot six hundred bullets per minute ("Alcatraz Prison also a Fortress"). Everyone who has attempted to escape either never survived or could not get passed without getting caught ("Alcatraz Island"). It was very rare that someone tried to escape, and the few who did most likely did not survive one way or another ("Alcatraz"). There were fourteen attempt of escape in twenty nine years involving thirty four prisoners. One of those attempts was in 1908 ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Some of the most famous people of Alcatraz were "Machine Gun" Kelly, Al "Scarface" Capone, and the most well known, Robert Strout, or "Birdman of Alcatraz"("Alcatraz"). Al Capone was thrown in Alcatraz for tax evasion and a crime he committed with someone else. He bribed the people in the prison and he stayed in Alcatraz for a very long time (Skulnick, Marc). Capone and George Kerr, another famous Alcatraz inmate, were both transferred in 1932 because they stole $235,000 from a post office in California ("Alcatraz Prison also a Fortress"). Robert Franklin Stroud was for sure the most famous inmate in Alcatraz ("Robert Stroud". Stroud was a serial killer and convicted murderer who was feared by everyone (Skulnick, Marc). He was born in 1890 in Seattle, Washington and grew up as a troubled child. He ran away from home when he was only thirteen, and at eighteen he moved away to Alaska. When he was only nineteen years old in 1909, he was guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to twelve years in prison on McNeil Island. In that prison, he was allowed to begin raising birds and have a lab in his cell to study birds like he always wanted to. In 1912, Stroud killed a prisoner of McNeil Island and was then transferred to Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. At that prison in 1916, he killed a guard, but still stayed in that prison until 1920 when President Woodrow

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