Alcatraz Island The island we all know in the San Francisco bay was first explored by a French explorer names Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775." While the exact meaning is still debated‚ Alcatraz is usually defined as meaning "pelican" or "strange bird"(Bop). Instead of being called Alctraces‚ the name conformed and just became known as Alcatraz. The island opened as a federal prison in 1934. It was notorious for being the prison that held most‚ if not all of the United States of America’s most hazardous
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Abstract Alcatraz Prison was one of the most secure prisons ever built in the United States. Alcatraz was erected in the San Francisco Bay and originally was a military facility during the late 1800s. Alcatraz has housed 1‚576 of the United States most dangerous criminals during its 29 year existence (Williams). Alcatraz has housed well known criminals such as Al Capone and George Barnes (The Rock). The prison was considered escape proof‚ so when prisoners from other federal facilities were causing
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Alcatraz Prison Imagine that you are an inmate at Alcatraz. You wake up to hear a whistle around . First you go and eat for fifteen minutes. After you finish eating you have to put your knife on the left side of the tray‚ the fork in the middle‚ and the spoon on the right. The guards force you to clean your sleeping area‚ like the cell bars‚ the toilet bowl‚ make your bed‚ and fold the seat and table against the wall. Secondly when you are done cleaning your cell area then the second morning whistle
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Alcatraz Island and Prison Alcatraz Island‚ also infamously known as “The Rock”‚ is located in the San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco‚ Ca. It stands 121 feet above sea level and spans approximately 22 acres. The Spanish Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island for sea birds; he was reported to be the first known European to sail through the Golden Gate in 1775. It was named “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning the Island of the Pelicans. It later became home
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prisoners on Alcatraz Island were treated in such a way. Psychological Orientation: If you were a prisoner on Alcatraz Island‚ every aspect of your life would be controlled by a higher authority. If you like to have a midnight snack every now and then‚ that luxury would be taken away. If you like to sit around and watch TV for hours‚ you can forget about that too. Logical Orientation: Alcatraz has a long history of transformation as to how it came to be known as the inescapable prison island. This reputation
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of this land‚ the Alcatraz occupation in 1969 led by righteous college students‚ became the longest Indian occupation of federal ground in the history of the United States and a landmark for Indian self-determination. The documentary‚ Alcatraz is Not an Island‚ describes the occupation that made Alcatraz a symbol for Indigenous people as motivation to stand up against the cruelty that they have experienced since the arrival of the Europeans. Hence the name of the film‚ Alcatraz can be seen as an
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Alcatraz was a high security federal prison‚ it was a prison where all the worst criminals from all over the world were sent and also the most insane ones. Alcatraz Island was built in the chilly waters of California’s most difficult and dangerous felons during its years of operation from 1934 ( That’s when it was built) to 1963 (That’s when it was closed). It held the most insane criminals to the most smartest criminals. Alcatraz Island was a maximum high-security federal prison that was 1.25 million
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build a super max prison named Alcatraz or Justice on the Rock to hold the most wanted criminals. But over time they had to shut Alcatraz down‚ and then sent the prisoners all across the U.S.A Alcatraz is different from other prisons because first there wasn’t that many supermax prisons in fact it was the only super max prison. Justice on the Rock was alo different because it was the main prison where the baddest of the baddest went including Robert Stroud and Al Capone. Alcatraz
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Alcatraz 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
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The History of Alcatraz Alcatraz is a historic prison located on an island in San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the most famous prisons in the country known for holding the most notorious criminals in the world and being “escape proof”. Alcatraz was first founded by Native Americans who believed evil spirits were on the island and first called it‚ “Devil’s Island” (Weiser). The island was isolated for many years after its discovery and after the Mexican-American War ended‚ the U.S.
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