yes.

about 1,580 prisoners and about 150 guards.

Yes, Alcatraz is a landmark. It is a historic site operated by the National Park Service.

Yes, two men did escape, but to swim the bay into San Francisco is very dangerous and cold. It is believed they didn't live.

around 1:00 usually.

because for the people so they would not escape and it is the most dangerous prison because it has got a bunch of murders which are killers and they also got people in there that like to rape little kids it is dangerous and very very important to stay inside unless you have a parent outside with you

the rock

Native Americans wishing to claim the land for their use.

Because it is almost two miles of off the coast of San Francisco. The Water between the two is cold shark infested and has currents that are very strong and could washa nd escapee out to sea very easily.

It is important because it locked up people that are violent criminals. The guards tought the prisoners to be nicer and to be alot less violenter. It is also important because it tought people a lesson not to be violent and that you do not want to be like this our you are sitting there in a jail cell doind completly nothing and shackles around your ankles. No fresh water our any source of energy on that island. The prisoners sleep on these tiny little cots.

the climax is Danny saving the old lady from a mugger

it was on an island making it a great spot for a prison

Robert Franklin Stroud was known as the bird man of Alcatraz. He died November 21, 1963, in Springfield, Missouri, United States.

The Person who Named Alcatraz was in charge of Alcatraz

Alcatraz would be the most famous, on an island in the mouth of the San Francisco Bay.

Also, Terminal Island is a federal prison on an island in the Bay of Los Angeles.

The United States Military built the fortress on the island beginning around 1854. The island was later turned into a military prison, and in 1912 the prison building was built. The island was later taken over by the federal government in 1934.

On Alcatraz people had to get up at 6:30 from what I know

Only one man ever succeeded in swimming all the way to shore on Alcatraz: in 1962, John Paul Scott washed up on the rocks at Fort Point. He was so tired from the swim through the frigid waters of the Golden Gate that the boys who found him thought he was an unsuccessful suicide attempt from the overhanging Golden Gate Bridge and called for help. Police apprehended the exhausted swimmer within minutes of his landfall.

John Giles made it farther off the Rock and in better condition than any man. In 1945, he collected a complete Technical Sargeant's uniform, put it on, and got aboard an Army boat which he thought was going to take him to the Presidio, on the San Francisco mainland. The boat headed for Fort McDowell on Angel Island, instead. The Army also counted the people on the boat. When they discovered they had an extra man, they radioed back to Alcatraz. The Bureau of Prisons sent a speedboat which made it to Angel Island before the Army boat. As Giles came down the gangplank, he saw Captain Phillip Bergen waiting to take him back home.

One man who successfully escaped Alcatraz custody for a time was the counterfeiter John Standig. On the way back from a trial in 1935, Standig jumped off a railroad train and into a stream near Richmond, California. He eluded recapture for ten days. Standig later went crazy in the Alcatraz dungeons and was sent to Springfield, Missouri.

Alcatraz was used as a prison.

17 years

I believe that is is San Fransisco(:

They lived for lots of years

Alcatraz was a prison for big criminals. For example Al Capone and Machine gun Kelly they were huge criminals. It was put on an island so it would be hard for the prisoners to escape. The workers would have to move there because they worked long shifts. It's closed down now but , it's near San Fransisco you can take tours of it there. There were some children on the island but they were protected. The book Al Capone does my shirts sort of gives you a description of Alcatraz as well.

Robert Stroud, the birdman, died of natural causes in the medical center for federal prisoners.