Alcatraz... if you don't follow the rules you go to prison...if you don't follow prison rules you get sent to Alcatraz.

Selah :)
         Regulation #5- You are entitled food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege.
      Today we were sent to Alcatraz where we learned a lot of its very interesting history. La Isla de los Alcatraces (island of the sea birds) was originally built as a military base and because they happened to catch many war prisoners there it eventually turned in to a prison for the worst of the worst. Eventually because of busted up buildings and costing a lot to run Alcatraz closed in1963.
  Later the indians believed that they should get to stay on the island because we had kicked them off of almost all of their homelands forcing them in to reservations, and that Alcatraz was indian land. They only got to stay there for for a for about 18 months from 1969 to 1971. After that Alcatraz was no longer in use by anyone except as a home for birds as the tourist attraction we saw today.

Lily <3
     "These five words seem written in fire on the walls of my cell; Nothing can be worth this"
 George "Machine Gun" Kelly
            Alcatraz..... is not entirely impossible to escape from! There have been 14 escape attempts involving 36 people in Alcatraz's (approximately) 30 years as a non-military prison.  26 were caught, 6 were shot during the escape, and 2 were drowned due to the harsh currents and freezing cold water. One attempt involved the prisoners breaking off the scoop part of lunch spoons and using the handle as a pick, over the course of a year breaking away at the brick! I cant imagine what it must be like, being so close, yet so far away to freedom! San Francisco City less than a mile and a half away! Prisoners, if disobedient, would be sent to the Treatment Unit :(