by PRP Group, on 08/23/2024
It had earned its reputation as a “forbidding place," complete with the grandeur and build of a fort, isolated by the cold Pacific Ocean, made with tough iron bars and frequent checks by security guards.
Built across the 22-acre island in the bay of San Francisco, the Alcatraz prison housed the most notorious criminals between 1934 and 1963, per the FBI.
However, in the end, all it took for Alcatraz’s legacy as “The Rock” to unravel was a set of plaster and paint used by three prisoners who made dummies to evade security - pulling off the most successful escape in the prison's history.