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Alcatraz was most dangerous and feared prison in the world, its was located in the middle of the

San
Francisco bay, it was also know as the rock, since this prison was considered escape proof,

Most dangerous criminal were prisoners in Alcatraz, such as Al Capone, American gangster and criminal
also known as scar face and George machine gun Kelly,

Alcatraz was full of war criminals and besides it was the place where crimes were often committed

In 1930 Alcatraz became well known and everybody thought that people there were destined to die or
suffer, Alcatraz was forbidden place, surrounded by rough and cold ocean, rules there were not easy to
copy with. Alcatraz was considered as the rock since it was built with iron, there were iron bars, guards
were tough toward prisoners. Many people tried to escape but ended up dead, in overall 36 tried to
escape but only three of them succeed.

Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin were the ones who beat the odd,

At first Frank became prisoner in1960, soon after John and then Anglin, they were loaning to escape for
2 years and they started digging holes by spoons. On June 12, 1962, the routine early morning bed
check turned out to be anything but. Three convicts were not in their cells: John Anglin, his brother
Clarence, and Frank Morris.

In their beds were cleverly built dummy heads made of plaster, flesh-tone paint, and real human hair
that apparently fooled the night guards. The prison went into lock down, and an intensive search began.

After disappearance police start gathering clues and found spoons and some wooden piece, which was
used to dig the holes.

FBI started gathering more information about them and soon after with the help of one of the prisoner
they found axe and pieces of broken vacuum, during digging they were hiding sand into the bags and
then they were throwing out the in the backyard .

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