Alcatraz Pictures at last

 

Foreground shows officers and their families quarters,prison on top of island.

full families lived their lives on the island children went to school on mainland by boat each day

                                        Standard 9ft x5ft cell bed in front of wc and that  is it

                                         Prison yard exactly as seen in the films and on tele.

                          Some of the ''more illustrious inmates including Al Capone and the Bird Man

                             One row of the cell block, there were many more guards walked down the
                             centre out of reach of the inmates, no armed guards patrolled the cell
                             areas, armed guards were house in caged off balconies at each end of the
                             cell rows at first floor level out of reach of anyprisoner  and  controlling
                             the whole area 24 hours per day with minimum of four armed guards at
                             any one time.