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Alcatraz Federal Prison

A Long Ago Prisoner Summed It Up by Saying, "Can Anything Be Worth This?"

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Classified as a concentration model, where difficult-to-manage prisoners from other institutions would be concentrated under one roof, Alcatraz served as an experiment. Prisoners were given four basic things - food, clothing, shelter and medical care. Anyhing else was earned.

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