federal prison, but most are reluctant to know that this island served as fort. Built before

the Civil War, it served two main purposes. First, that it was to guard the San Francisco

bay area from enemy ships against a foreign invasion, and second, to hold hostage

prisoners of war or POW's as they were called. In this report, I'll show you how this

fortress came to be a federal prison, why it is no longer in operation today, and most

importantly, to show why it was built in the first place. When the great "Gold Rush" of

1849 first started, California grew from what would be considered a small, unpopulated

state, into what it is now. California is now one of the most populated states and it was

mostly the gold rush that brought attention to California. As the government saw all of

this happening, they realized that California was much more important than they ever

realized. In their realization, they decided that California must be protected. San

Francisco has one of the largest bays in all of California, and so this was where enemy

countries would most likely to try to invade the country. So this is where Alcatraz was to

anything be worth THIS?" We can either learn from what valuable lessons that were

"official" shipment to Alcatraz in September of 1934 was George "Machine Gun" Kelly.

the more secure institution. Headlines and Hoover must here be considered. After

final twenty-seven inmates taken off on the aforementioned date. For the first time in its

assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. On the morning of his death, Stroud was

incarceration in USP McNeil Island, where he was sentenced to 12 years for

Francisco's only major defense. It started off with only eleven cannons, that were

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