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More Facts of Alcatraz
You know how big were the cells at Alcatraz? Well cells were smaller than a closet, now closets are 6 feet by 6 feet or bigger, and the cells were 5 feet by 9 feet. Some of the cons share their cells and they had less space. The cells include a toilet, a sink (with cold running water), and a bed with a thin blanket (it was every in cold there), and in case of Capone a banjo. There were original 348 cells but they take out 12 to put stairways and they became only 336 cells. There were some cells called the ¨Hole¨, when a con didn’t behave well he pass 2 days in the ¨HOLE¨. The ¨HOLE¨ didn’t had light, a sink or a bed, they only had a hole as a toilet, a thin blanket and NO food. The average of prisoners at Alcatraz was of 260 but there were 320 prisoners and as the time pass they had more, the more prisoners the prison had were 1545 in total.
You know why Alcatraz Prison close? The Alcatraz Prison close in XX century because many prisoners where at Alcatraz and they needed water, food, light, and many other things and that cost a lot of money they didn’t have so they close Alcatraz.
Long time ago when a man found the island he saw many gulls and cormorants, so he though about a name for the island, until he called the Island “La Isla de los Alcatraces”. At first the name was “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning “Island of Pelicans”, but through the years the name change and became “Alcatraz Island”. When the island became the prison the cons called it ¨The Rock¨ because it was so difficult to escape from there, and also because the island was like a rock, it didn’t had so many animals or plants and it was rounded by rocks.
You know how big were the cells at Alcatraz? Well cells were smaller than a closet, now closets are 6 feet by 6 feet or bigger, and the cells were 5 feet by 9 feet. Some of the cons share their cells and they had less space. The cells include a toilet, a sink (with cold running water), and a bed with a thin blanket (it was every in cold there), and in case of Capone a banjo. There were original 348 cells but they take out 12 to put stairways and they became only 336 cells. There were some cells called the ¨Hole¨, when a con didn’t behave well he pass 2 days in the ¨HOLE¨. The ¨HOLE¨ didn’t had light, a sink or a bed, they only had a hole as a toilet, a thin blanket and NO food. The average of prisoners at Alcatraz was of 260 but there were 320 prisoners and as the time pass they had more, the more prisoners the prison had were 1545 in total.
You know why Alcatraz Prison close? The Alcatraz Prison close in XX century because many prisoners where at Alcatraz and they needed water, food, light, and many other things and that cost a lot of money they didn’t have so they close Alcatraz.
Long time ago when a man found the island he saw many gulls and cormorants, so he though about a name for the island, until he called the Island “La Isla de los Alcatraces”. At first the name was “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning “Island of Pelicans”, but through the years the name change and became “Alcatraz Island”. When the island became the prison the cons called it ¨The Rock¨ because it was so difficult to escape from there, and also because the island was like a rock, it didn’t had so many animals or plants and it was rounded by rocks.