Alcatraz is a prison, unlike any other prisons, a Super-max prison if you will. This prison is for the worst of the worsts. Prohibition started it all, Then it turned into the Alcatraz escapes, at last, the closing of Alcatraz.
The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor, the increasing of speakeasies and the accompanying rise in gang violence and other crimes led to support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. Which gave a man the idea of a Supermax prison for supermax prisoners.
The most famous super-max prison, Alcatraz. Home to Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (Birdman of Alcatraz), George Kelly.An outstanding amount of people tried to escape 36 inmates to be exact, with 14 total attempts to escape 31 failed and the other