Escaping Alcatraz: The Story Behind the Greatest Prison Break-Out

Falling Apart

It was easy for them to get through the walls as the prison was old and crumbling. The leaky pipes in the walls made it easy to dig through.

The Noise

In the 1960s, inmates were allowed to have a ‘music hour’ which created a lot of noise in the prison. They used the cover of that sound to carve the holes, which is how the guards didn’t catch onto them.

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