What It Was Like To Be A Prison Guard at Alcatraz
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Oldbmwr100rs
My stepmother grow up on the island, her father was a guard there. it was something she never really talked about, at least to me, and we only really did shortly before she passed. She told me about taking the ferry to the city every day for school and coming back, and how it was a little hard to make friends as much of the time you were pretty stuck in a small area. i wanted her to add to the oral history of the children who grew up there but sadly she didn't last long enough to make it back down. She lived there from being very young to a teenager, so got to know what all was going on. I really wish i'd learned more about it from her.
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My stepmother grow up on the island, her father was a guard there. it was something she never really talked about, at least to me, and we only really did shortly before she passed. She told me about taking the ferry to the city every day for school and coming back, and how it was a little hard to make friends as much of the time you were pretty stuck in a small area. i wanted her to add to the oral history of the children who grew up there but sadly she didn't last long enough to make it back down. She lived there from being very young to a teenager, so got to know what all was going on. I really wish i'd learned more about it from her.
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Dan
Hey, I volunteered at the island for over 200 hours and learned a ton about it. While you got a lot of the stuff right you missed an insane amount of information. The island was called Alcatraz after the Americans took it from the Spanish. Theres an underground prison that you completely missed. We used it during the civil war to house confederates. While the prison was built on top of that underground one the real history went down in those caves. And then you didnt even bother to mention anything about the native Americans
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Hey, I volunteered at the island for over 200 hours and learned a ton about it. While you got a lot of the stuff right you missed an insane amount of information. The island was called Alcatraz after the Americans took it from the Spanish. Theres an underground prison that you completely missed. We used it during the civil war to house confederates. While the prison was built on top of that underground one the real history went down in those caves. And then you didnt even bother to mention anything about the native Americans
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Cody
What I find strange is there is basically no information on Marvin Hubbard one of the inmates in the hold up of alcatraz he was actually a cousin of mine my great grandmother had a scrap book about him he was a petty car thief and was only sent to alcatraz after escaping from 7 maximum security prisons. she had a hand written letter from his mother that stated they can't hold him so they're sending him to the rock he'll either escape or die trying. If that wasn't ominous enough
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What I find strange is there is basically no information on Marvin Hubbard one of the inmates in the hold up of alcatraz he was actually a cousin of mine my great grandmother had a scrap book about him he was a petty car thief and was only sent to alcatraz after escaping from 7 maximum security prisons. she had a hand written letter from his mother that stated they can't hold him so they're sending him to the rock he'll either escape or die trying. If that wasn't ominous enough
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Dave
Absolutely brilliant thanks so much for sharing I found this one both interesting and entertaining. Thought it was funny you could buy postcards at Alcatraz. If you go by the hate comments Ive been getting after I commented on the sad state of the old abandoned once beautiful homes and neighbourhoods in Detroit getting a wish you were here postcard from Alcatraz would be like getting a postcard from my own prison island home of Australia during the Wuhn Flu pandemic.
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Absolutely brilliant thanks so much for sharing I found this one both interesting and entertaining. Thought it was funny you could buy postcards at Alcatraz. If you go by the hate comments Ive been getting after I commented on the sad state of the old abandoned once beautiful homes and neighbourhoods in Detroit getting a wish you were here postcard from Alcatraz would be like getting a postcard from my own prison island home of Australia during the Wuhn Flu pandemic.
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Estelle
I guess there aren't many ppl. left who has ties to Alcatraz. My dad actually was actually a guard there. At the time I would have been afraid, but, now I wished I had lived on the island. We lived in Fresno and it was close enough and my dad commuted. My dad was only there for a short time and then the prison was closing. I think I would of been afraid of rats more than the prisoners.
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I guess there aren't many ppl. left who has ties to Alcatraz. My dad actually was actually a guard there. At the time I would have been afraid, but, now I wished I had lived on the island. We lived in Fresno and it was close enough and my dad commuted. My dad was only there for a short time and then the prison was closing. I think I would of been afraid of rats more than the prisoners.
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Michael
Sounds like Kentucky State Penitentiary here where I live, which I was a CO for almost 18 months, as far as the respect between inmates & CO's but our penitentiary is single man cells & a lot of inmates I talked to while on duty there said they'd rather be there even on a non fatal charge because of that reason & we're the only Maximum Security Prison in KY because of Death Row.
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Sounds like Kentucky State Penitentiary here where I live, which I was a CO for almost 18 months, as far as the respect between inmates & CO's but our penitentiary is single man cells & a lot of inmates I talked to while on duty there said they'd rather be there even on a non fatal charge because of that reason & we're the only Maximum Security Prison in KY because of Death Row.
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roachtoasties
I visited the rock once (on the tour boat. I do suggest anyone visiting San Francisco, make a reservation to visit, although visiting once is enough. I think it was closed because it was expensive to operate. That along with no room to expand. If you want to build a Federal prison now, a capacity of 336 just won't do.
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I visited the rock once (on the tour boat. I do suggest anyone visiting San Francisco, make a reservation to visit, although visiting once is enough. I think it was closed because it was expensive to operate. That along with no room to expand. If you want to build a Federal prison now, a capacity of 336 just won't do.
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Mamie
Anna Thumann wrote an interesting story of her life as an Alcatraz kid in Alcatraz Schoolgirl. I just did a search on Growing up on Alcatraz and discovered more than one written by children who lived there as school kids. I'm going to have to get my Kindle out.
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Anna Thumann wrote an interesting story of her life as an Alcatraz kid in Alcatraz Schoolgirl. I just did a search on Growing up on Alcatraz and discovered more than one written by children who lived there as school kids. I'm going to have to get my Kindle out.
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Enlig
One of my criminal justice professors back in the 1980s lived there for a few years as his father was a guard there. The only thing he mentioned about it was the sight of the island while riding the daily ferry to and from high school over in San Francisco.
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One of my criminal justice professors back in the 1980s lived there for a few years as his father was a guard there. The only thing he mentioned about it was the sight of the island while riding the daily ferry to and from high school over in San Francisco.
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Ignochomp99
Besse Higgenbottem and Penny were trying to teach Happy about Alcatraz! The Mighty Bee did an episode about it! It was pretty funny because the guard thought Besse and Penny were prisoners that escaped.
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Besse Higgenbottem and Penny were trying to teach Happy about Alcatraz! The Mighty Bee did an episode about it! It was pretty funny because the guard thought Besse and Penny were prisoners that escaped.
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Spike
I worked at Terminal Island Prison, where Capone and other inmates ended up for medical. We had houses but it was mostly for the upper management. It was pretty pleasant place and we had a guard tower there.
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I worked at Terminal Island Prison, where Capone and other inmates ended up for medical. We had houses but it was mostly for the upper management. It was pretty pleasant place and we had a guard tower there.
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Daniel
The photo in second 0: 12 is from the psychologist George Alexander Kelly and he was never a prisoner in Alcatraz, the prisoner of Alcatraz was George Kelly Barnes Machine Gun Kelly
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The photo in second 0: 12 is from the psychologist George Alexander Kelly and he was never a prisoner in Alcatraz, the prisoner of Alcatraz was George Kelly Barnes Machine Gun Kelly
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Cody
Love these videos do a video on the old Mansfield ohio reformatory that be great I lived right in the old prison yard for 2 years locked up at the prison beside called richland
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Love these videos do a video on the old Mansfield ohio reformatory that be great I lived right in the old prison yard for 2 years locked up at the prison beside called richland
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Aaron
I wouldnt of made it as a guard at Alcatraz but I would much rather be a guard then be inmate Because I would feel more confident and I would not be in constant trouble
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I wouldnt of made it as a guard at Alcatraz but I would much rather be a guard then be inmate Because I would feel more confident and I would not be in constant trouble
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Star
Great episode. I was able to visit Alcatraz once. Had forgotten the guards families lived there.
I would like Sing Sing as an episode. TIA for consideration.
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Great episode. I was able to visit Alcatraz once. Had forgotten the guards families lived there.
I would like Sing Sing as an episode. TIA for consideration.
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Patty
Not all guards lived on the island. He never spoke about it, but he was a guard for two years. I think it was too much for him after surviving Pearl Harbour.
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Not all guards lived on the island. He never spoke about it, but he was a guard for two years. I think it was too much for him after surviving Pearl Harbour.
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stirgy
Some years ago we took the tour of Alcatraz while we were in San Francisco. Really incredible a huge facility. I still remember the cell of Frank Morris
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Some years ago we took the tour of Alcatraz while we were in San Francisco. Really incredible a huge facility. I still remember the cell of Frank Morris
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Frank
It would of been nice to see plans of housing, weather in the bay can get windy and cold thoughout the year so living accomodations better be nice.
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It would of been nice to see plans of housing, weather in the bay can get windy and cold thoughout the year so living accomodations better be nice.
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Samantha
Eastern state penitentiary, family is from Philly and we would go there for Halloween. They had Steve Buscemi narrate the recorded section.
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Eastern state penitentiary, family is from Philly and we would go there for Halloween. They had Steve Buscemi narrate the recorded section.
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KLWM
Wow! Very interesting! I didn't know that the guards families lived there too! I visited Alcatraz in the 70's as a child. It was fascinating!
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Wow! Very interesting! I didn't know that the guards families lived there too! I visited Alcatraz in the 70's as a child. It was fascinating!
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