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A group of Native Americans occupied the island but they were unsuccessful. They wanted to build a museum their but they never built it.
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Cold showers. The prisoners had to take cold showers so they wouldn’t get used to the cold water in the bay.
Alcatraz prisoners jail cells were very small. They could not have anything entertaining.
The light at Alcatraz looks out after over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz was also the first site chosen for a lighthouse in the west coast.
Really 36 Alcatraz prisoners tried to escape they either got shot, drowned, or went back to prison.
Alcatraz went under U.S. control in 1850.
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