Happened on this day
Today in History (1963), the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay was officially closed after 29 years of work. Its closure is mainly due to expensive operating costs.
In addition to its nature (as the primary purpose of which is to carry out the sentence), are not in line with modern trends in the treatment of crime, which call for the main objective of prisons to be rehabilitation.
Now the island is being used as one of San Francisco's most important tourist attractions. Thousands of tourists arrive every day, and visitors have the opportunity to walk around the enchanted island, entering all parts of the prison with clear instructions and a fun voice recording that includes annotations that reflect important events inside the walls. The prison takes visitors from the beginning of the prisoner's descent to the prison island, through the medical examination rooms, to changing the prisoner's clothes to the criminals 'way of life, to the prisoners' way of life. Family Prisoners and imagine yourself a prisoner.