Alcatraz Imagine yourself existing in a dirty, smelly, cold prison cell that has water dripping down the walls from the ceiling and hardly ever seeing daylight. If you were a guest at Alcatraz, that is exactly what you would experience. Alcatraz was a Federal Prison located in the San Francisco Bay. It was built on a twelve acre, solid rock island, one mile from the main land. There were no roads or bridges built to …showed first 75 words of 882 total…

…showed last 75 words of 882 total…a very strong prison where an inmate who attempted escape had to be very sneaky and very skilled. In order to escape he would have to evade the watch tower and then swim the mile of very frigid turbulent water to get to the mainland. Once on the mainland he would have to hide from the police. In 1963 Alcatraz closed due to an earthquake, and because it was just too expensive to repair and maintain.