Visiting Alcatraz Island
I recently went on holiday to America and visited many different tourist destinations. One of these destinations was Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz Island is notorious for being home to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison famous for holding some of America’s worst criminals, including the likes of Al Capone. You often hear stories about Alcatraz, but when I visited it myself, I learned a lot about it that I didn’t know or realise before. One such example is that although there were a few escape attempts, nobody was ever confirmed to have escaped, despite what you might see in media such as films, books or games. The water surrounding the island was too cold and the island was too distant from the mainland for swimming to freedom to be…