Alcatraz

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Alcatraz Island San Francisco Bay - The weathered and deteriorating laundry facility used when Alcatraz was a Federal Penitentiary. 

Alcatraz, which earned the nickname of the "Rock", was the ultimate American prison. For 29 years, the damp, fogged-in prison kept the country’s most notorious criminals put away from the rest of the world. The heavy mists, cold wind and water and the foghorns of the bay made Alcatraz the loneliest of the prisons. It was not conceived as a facility for rehabilitation. It was a place of total punishment and minimum privilege.