is a small island located in the San Francisco Bay of California, USA.
covers an area of 0.0763 square kilometers, surrounded by cliffs and deep water, and is not easy to access to outside traffic. Therefore, it was selected as the prison construction site by the US government. The felon
was abolished in 1963.
The official name of Alcatraz Island is "Pelican Island".
When the Spanish discovered it in the 18th century, it was named after the island's many water birds, pelicans.
Pelican Island is close to San Francisco, but it is surrounded by extremely cold water. The special geographical environment of
made it a prison by the federal government in 1934.
Pelican Island’s unique scenery and natural ecology, coupled with the best-selling movies set in the island’s prison, attract nearly 1.5 million tourists every year.
National Park Service spokesman Weidman said: “People are constantly reacting to want to see the whole island. The hotel (open all day) should be the best way for tourists to get close to it.” According to the current concept, the hotel will be located where you can see. The prison guard living room in San Francisco Bay. In addition, the ecological zone, prison guard stadium and theater that are not yet open to visit will be of interest to tourists.
The island is the second most popular attraction in San Francisco. Tickets for summer visits must be snapped up several weeks in advance. "Escape From Alcatraz" (Escape From Alcatraz) starring actor Clint Eastwest, and "The Rock" (The Rock) starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage are also called Brave Mingdao, all use this as a scene.
The name "Alcatraz" comes from a prisoner who was imprisoned here
Philip Grosser (Philip Grosser)
was found guilty for refusing to serve in the war in World War I
He compiled his own experience behind bars , Named "Uncle Sam's Devil's Island" (Uncle Sam's Devil's Island), to expose to the public the horror and darkness of the prison at that time
gave this pelican island the prestigious name "Alcatraz".
The prison structure
has three floors, with iron bars on both sides separating one cell.
This prison corridor also has a nice name called "Broadway Street". Any new prisoner who just went to jail would have to walk through here naked, just like a show on time, and the old prisoners in the iron cages on both sides of the prison screamed and screamed.
Each cell is exactly the same, width 5 length 9 height 7 feet
is a cell built in 1934
each has their own small space, separate tap water wash basin and toilet
Each cell also has a small square mirror . Have a bath at a fixed time every week. Turn off the lights at 9:30 every night to sleep. On the right side is a simple table and stool. Every prisoner will get a brand new bedding, pillow and cover after moving in.
The venue
where prisoners are released is about the size of three blue courts. It is bare, and there is a blue sea outside the high walls.
prisoners are walking and playing baseball here. The cell was heavily guarded, except for steel and concrete, prisoners could not escape with their wings.
Entertainment
6:30-7:30 every night, it is the music time for prisoners. During this time, you can play harmonica, saxophone, guitar, trumpet, etc.
In each cell, there is a socket for listening to the radio, just like the plug on an airplane. Prisoners can listen to the radio as well as basketball and baseball games. But for them, absolutely not satisfied! What is
? Three packs of cigarettes a week, the food is delicious and delicious, in the eyes of criminals are shit, what they want is freedom.
prison operating room:
cannon:
successfully escaped by three people
The prisoners detained here have nothing except food, clothing and housing and limited medical supplies. Annoying prisoners are often severely punished in solitary confinement. There is no light or electricity in the confinement room, darkness, coldness and silence, with only cockroaches and mice as the company. What is beyond reach is the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, Oakland Bridge, and the colorful world of San Francisco.
The detainees can only stay in a cage of several meters square for many years. It is a rare luxury to look at such a scene, and it is also a great mental torture. Perhaps it is precisely because they can't stand this cruel torture that the prisoners have planned to implement many escape cases. When
was used as a military prison, 80 prisoners attempted to escape from here, 62 of them were captured and one was drowned. During the period as a federal prison, the official website of Alcatraz Island reported that there were 14 escapes during the federal prison, involving 36 prisoners, of which 23 were arrested, 6 were killed, 2 drowned, and 5 were missing. The official It is claimed that these five people are most likely to have been swallowed by the sea.
In fact, three of these five people may indeed have successfully escaped from prison
. Their names are Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin. (Allen West, a mechanical expert in the prison escape team, was unfortunately left behind at the last moment. Many details of the following escape plan were confessed afterwards.)
Since 1961, prisoners began to rely on them. They dig concrete walls from stolen spoons, coins and nail clippers, and even made electric drills using stolen vacuum cleaner motors. As a cover during the accordion playing time in the prison, it took a year to dug large holes in the vents on the concrete walls of each compartment and tricked the guards with a fake wall made of wet newspaper.
This was the tool at the time:
The big hole in the vent on the concrete wall:
After grinding off the grille, the gate to the prison roof finally opened.
One late night in June 1962, the three of them got through the entrance of the cave and then climbed to the roof. The group of three climbed down the 9-meter-high roof with a self-made inflatable raft and escaped patrols to the beach. These three'geniuses' made three'half heads' that looked the same as theirs out of newspaper, plastic hair paint and other materials and put them on their beds, so they did not find any clues when the guards patrolled.
The ventilation shaft of the duct gallery :
Prison escape vent:
plastic fake head:
The last obstacle they faced was the 2500-meter-wide icy water between land and Alcatraz. Of course, they had prepared for the first time.
According to the introduction of Popular Machinery magazine, an inflatable raft with a width of 1.8 meters and a length of 4.2 meters was glued with fifty rubber cloth raincoats and stolen glue, and a self-made oar was made of plywood.
was modified with an accordion in the dark The bellows were full, and the oars set sail, and disappeared into the night sea without a trace. It took a long time for the prison guards to discover that something was wrong. After some searching, they only found the bee on the shore of Angel Island, which is nearly 3 kilometers north. Abandoned raft and a boat oar, after that the three were nowhere to be seen, and until now no conclusive evidence has been found.
In 2006, the "Mythbusters" program had paid attention to this famous puzzle, and for this they found The rubber raincoat of the same material is glued into an inflatable raft, which enters the water from Alcatraz Island and sails towards the Golden Gate Bridge at night. Although the raft almost sinks in the waves and requires constant blowing and scooping of water, the adventurer is still successful They came ashore near the Golden Gate Bridge. In the end, they believed that the three men might indeed escape from prison. The plot in the
movie really happened in 1962 in San Francisco
. It seems that the three have not recovered yet, and
has not recovered. I don’t know what happened to them in the end. The editor of
sighs!
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