Ponder this: should prisons be designed for rehabilitation, retribution, or both? Many people might say rehabilitation, as the goal of many prisoners is to make it out of prison alive and free. However, not all prisons are designed for rehabilitation, and not all officials attempt to prepare prisoners for the world outside the prison walls. According to many films, brute officers are often the cause for prisoner escape attempts. Rather than help the prisoners leave freely, they employ strict and harsh punishment and attempt to make good prisoners rather than good people out of inmates. Brute Force and Escape from Alcatraz are two films that depict this type of relationship between inmates and officers, and bring to light examples of brutality in the prison system. Brute Force (1947) is a prison noir escape film that tells the fictional story of Joe Collins and the other four inmates from cell R17 and their attempt to escape from an unidentified prison. Unfortunately for them, their escape attempt was unsuccessful as it resulted in casualties of all inmates of cell R17 as well as other friends of the inmates, accomplices, and other prison officers. The prison in this film is never named, and therefore it is …show more content…
In addition to Morris and the Anglins, another inmate was directly involved and had planned on escaping with the other three but failed to dig a hole from his cell to the interior corridor in time to make the attempt and was left with no gear to complete the escape on his own. Morris and the Anglins were never heard from or found again, and the government deemed it a failed attempt and believe they drowned in the waters surrounding Alcatraz. However, in comparison to Brute Force, this escape was successful as the inmates made it outside of the prison