Alacatraz Prison

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” They do not treat the prisoners very well. When we are going on our trip we will see how the prisoners lived. In their tiny cells, with their toilets. This will show us that we should treat our prisoners better at times. We can very cruel to prisoners. This trip matters for high school students, because they will get to see how the prison system works. The trip will take us to see each invidual prison. The prison trips will teach high school students about the prison system by showing what Sing Sing, Eastern State, and Alacatraz prison has to offer. Students, lets take a closer look. Alacatraz prison is the first place named. This is the first prison, because it is the one of the most visited prisons in the United States. The prison first opened August 22,1934. The government opened the prison because they wanted to show the public that they were serious about the violent crimes. The prison closed on March 21, 1963. The prison closed because they were unable to afford the costs it was going to require. It was estimated that it would cost roughly 3 million

This is the second prison because it is a prison located in a big state. Sing Sing prison was opened in 1829. Sing Sing’s name comes from an Indian phrase sin sinck. This phrase means stone on stone. The prison was able to hold 800 prisoners at a time. The prison was a stark gray with not a single decoration. The cells were equiped with a lever locking mechaism that could unlock 50 cells at a time. Women who were in Sing Sing in 1943 revolted. They got ahold of homemade knifes. The board director told the police officers to stop beating the convicts when they thought necessary. Instead they started giving them tobacco hoping it would calm them down. Students, lets move along to the next