Alcatraz escape files
Subtitle: from the official records
By: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy ; text: Nancy Licht Miljanich
Contributors: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Publisher: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781932519167
Subjects: Escapes; Case studies; Escaped prisoners; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Description: USP Alcatraz was the nation's first "super-max" facility, a prison within the prison system, designed to be escape-proof. But was it? During the Rock's 29-year history, the federal Bureau of Prisons documented fourteen escape attempts. Driven men broke out of solitary confinement, slipped away from the dock, used improvised tools to saw through steel bars, created decoy dummy heads from soap and human hair. When it came to ways to get out of their cells and off the island, these men, many of whom had long records and long histories of trying to escape from other institutions, hatched some remarkably daring getaway plans. Based on the official files of the Bureau of Prisons and packed with photos and original documents, this book is the ultimate record of how far desperate men will go to be free.