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Alcatraz

an island in W California, in San Francisco Bay: a federal prison until 1963
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One character, Grace, has no real bearing on the story, serving as a vehicle for explaining what Scott has been up to since his childhood visit to Alcatraz.
The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, also known as "The Rock", was discovered by a Spanish explorer, Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775.
A year later, after modernisation, it reopened as Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, until closure in 1963.
No justice is served on Alcatraz 2.0, and human lives are a commodity to be used for entertainment.
IThe Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island was a maximum high-security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles off the coast of San Francisco, California, which operated from August 11, 1934, until March 21, 1963.
Did the three men who escaped in 1962 from Alcatraz - then known as the world's most impenetrable island prison, a place for only the most hardened of criminals - survive their brazen attempt?
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother.
Alcatraz Itis widely regarded as being one of the most demographically diverse cities in all of the United States.
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