Prison No. 1. Trump wants Alcatraz to revive

The prisoners were sent to Alcatraz, who was extremely rebellious to keep them in other US prisons.

Donald Trump has ordered to open and expand the famous Altatratus prison to maintain it as the “most cruel and aggressive American criminals”. In the mid -19th century, the first lighthouse on the west coast of the United States was built on the island of Alcatraz, indicating its way to ships on the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, it built a fort with a road -gun, which protects California from sea attacks. But Alcatraz has become famous these years when it is on the rock above San Francisco Bay in North California, there is a federal prison for the most prominent US gangsters. During the period from 1934 to 1963, criminals were moved to prison as it was considered dangerous for other prisons in the mainland. The prison was closed 63 years ago, but myths about it continue to live thanks to Hollywood films.

It is impossible to run

American authorities believe it is impossible to escape from Alcatraz due to strong waves and cold water in San Francisco Bay. By 1912, the world’s largest reinforced concrete building stood here.

And since 1933, the reputation of the imprisonment area of ​​a special kind since the alkatrase was formed: he has become a prison prison, as his federal Bureau of Correctional Institution of the United States. In practice, this means that the prisoners are sent here, which is too rebellious to keep them in other US prisons.

The so -called 1 × 3 content system is also tested in it, according to which a guard has one for every three inmates. This system eventually extended to other federal prisons.

The first prison leader was James Johnston, who believed that the main thing in prison was tough discipline, and not rehabilitation and reunion of prisoners. In accordance with his policies, a separate camera was assigned to each prisoner, but, of course, not for his convenience: Johnston believes that a single conclusion is a good way to avoid conspiracy and shoots.

The most awkward -scratches of the current policies, according to the experience of prison inhabitants, is the rule of extraordinary silence: only inmates are allowed to talk to the holidays over the weekend. Those who violate the rules are sent to the pit – an underground camera where the prisoner can be maintained within a few weeks.

Prisoner

Typically, 260 to 275 inmates are contained, less than 1% of the total number of federal prison prisoners. But even though the number of prisoners is small, the names of those behind the bars are strong: many of them are representatives of organized crime from times of Great Depression.

The most popular, no doubt, are Al Capone, Gangster and Smuggler, leading the deadly mafia syndicate in Chicago.

Kapone was sent to Alcatraz, because, according to authorities, sitting in an Atlanta prison, he continued the leadership of criminal activity. In prison, he spent a little over four years in prison, until he found syphilis and moved to another institution.

Another figure, whose glory exceeds prison corridors, is Robert Straud, who was convicted of murder.

He was named an ornithologist from Alcatraz for a love of birds. In the previous area of ​​imprisonment, in Kansas, he held several birds, but in Alcatraz it was forbidden, and he had to study ornithology in books.

Architects conceive an alcatrase as a prison where it is impossible to run – with electric fences, barbed wires, towers with armed guards and freezing ocean water.

But that did not prevent twelve inmates from making attempts to escape. According to official numbers, for nearly three decades, 14 attempts have been made of which 36 people have participated. According to the federal bureau, 23 were arrested, six were shot dead, and two others drowned.

But five are not found: authorities consider them to be missing, though some suggest that they may have escaped.

The main reason for the closure of Alcatraz in 1963 was the cost of its content. According to the US Department of Justice, $ 5 million is required for repairing buildings whose sea salt has been -corroded, and about $ 10 a day is taken to maintain each prisoner, which significantly exceeds the costs of other institutions.

Today, Alcatraz is one of San Francisco’s major attractions: about 1.3 million tourists per year to visit the island. Here, an annual escape of the cult triathlon from Alcatraz, where athletes show that with the right preparation and equipment from the deadly island, you can still escape and reach the mainland intact and not injured.