The Rock by Caleb

The wind!
The Indigenous people occupied Alcatraz for about a year and a half after it was closed as a prison. People were going to make an amusement park there and the indigenous people didn’t like that idea. After some fires and a girl dying the police moved in to end the occupation. The National Parks eventually took over the island.
Group showers
Isolation cell

It was a big jail. It was crazy big and treacherous. There were tons of jail cells. The showers were right next to each other and there was about 100. We went on an audio tour and explained everything and there were two big escapes. They two people had bought pictures and stole a bunch of spoons in their air duct hole and covered it with their paintings and use the spoons to dig it out, and they climbed through the air ducks and got out. The two of them were never seen again. There was also another attempt of breakaway he got out he started climbing the metal fence to get out and got shot down and died. There were also multiple attempts where they would get out and start swimming across to San Francisco. Some of them made it and some of them didn’t.

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