Alcatraz

We took an audio once we got on the island. At least we weren't the only ones walking around wearing silly headphones like these. There are quite a few pictures here.... The outside yard you see was the "recreation yard" for the inmates. They didn't have a lot of room, but would go out and play ball there or read any mail they had received. There is a picture that shows the famous prisoners that were kept at Alcatraz.

There are a couple different pictures of the cells the inmates would live in. The picture with the double door was solitary confinement. There wasn't any light that would get to them. Some of the inmates would be in these cells up to 14 days. During the audio tour it would say how the dark would play tricks on thier minds. The other cell you can see down toward the floor where the escape attempt would made. There were 3 inmates that did this. They made fake heads to lay on the beds so when the guards would come around they wouldn't notice the inmates were missing. The holes in the wall would lead them to the utility hall where the inmates climbed the pipes to the roof.

Alcatraz also was the home of the first working lighthouse.

The room where Holly is sitting was the library in the jail.

To me, the most amazing thing that I cannot get over is how most of the guards lived on the island with their families. Obviously, there were little kids who would play around on the island while the inmates were kept in their cells. The children thought it was cool how they got to ride the boat across the ocean to go to school.