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Escape From Alcatraz

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Escape From Alcatraz Take a minute to close your eyes, and imagine this. You wake up at 6:30 every morning, eat for only 25 minutes, and go to bed every day at 9:30 in a freezing cold cell really regretting your choices. This is the life of prisoners in Alcatraz. Some even tried to escape this prison, like Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers. Others who tried to escape the brutal prison had failed, but the men wanted to do what was known as the impossible. On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and the Anglin brother died trying to escape Alcatraz. In the prisoners attempt to escape, they made a raft out of raincoats. According to the article “Catraz”, by Deborah Hopkinson, San Francisco Bay (the waters surrounding Alcatraz) has very

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