When I was in the Navy we used to sail by Alcatraz from Alameda out to the ocean. I have been under the Golden Gate Bridge more than I have driven on it. I couldn't help thinking that the difference between my ship and Alcatraz was that my prison was moving. U.S. sailors at the time wore the same dungaree outfits that prisoners wore.
There was an island nearby which the Oakland Bay Bridge uses as a stopover called Treasure Island. My last job in the Navy was supervising prisoners in the giant brig they had there, so at the time (1983) there were two island prisons in San Francisco Bay although Alcatraz was not being used at the time.
Last edited by MagnusDippytack; 05-26-2011 at 10:14 PM.
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