Alcatraz has renewed attention in a fiction tv show. Thats not the only part of the show thats pure fabrication. So is this high tech headquarters underneath the prison it simply does not exist. Nor does elaborate series of caves and abandoned equipment. So whats really under the prison on alcatraz island. Bob mackenzie set out to answer that question in 1997. Seen from the bay its a beautiful place imposing and mysterious. But get closer and the grimness of alcatraz asserts itself. The abandoned hopes and seeding anger of thousands of prisoners seems to have seeped into the rock and poisoned the place forever. Today the island is a favorite outing for tourists but usually they find it more sobering than amusing. In the 1800 century it was a fortified army barracks. From the turn of the century on it was a federal prison. The meanest prison in the system its inmates the men considered most dangerous and likely to attempt escape. Though the island was riddled with caves, tunnels and hol
Alcatraz, which is set on a rocky outcrop 15 miles offshore from San Francisco, operated for 29 years as a penitentiary and during that time it held some of America s most dangerous criminals.
Former Lynchburg Circuit Judge R. Edwin Burnette served as a judge of several different courts over more than 40 years. But it wasn t his time on the bench that showed