Alcatraz

Alcatraz: for over 150 years, the name has given the innocent chills and the guilty cold sweats. Over the decades, it’s been the nation’s first military prison, a forbidding maximum-security penitentiary and disputed territory between Native American activists and the FBI. No wonder that first step you take onto ‘the Rock’ seems to cue ominous music: dunh-dunh-dunnnnh!more info:lonelyplanet

Alcatraz 04/27/08

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Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary

source:Richard Fleischman

Alcatraz

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Alcatraz

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 Alcatraz

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Alcatraz

source:Chris Oates