Pictured from left to right are San Francisco Mayor Angelo Rossi; Attorney General Homer Cummings, one of the conceptual founders of the prison; Warden Johnston; and San Francisco Police Chief William Quinn.
The records indicate that the two agencies cooperated amazingly well during the transition period. 1:11. On the northwest wall of the cell room is a stair that goes to the shower room. Wasn't that pretty dangerous?The inmates did have shaving razors, but not blades. Inmates would shower twice a week. Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Clint Eastwood prison knife fighting scene - Duration: 1:11. Note: The Shower Room, Dining Hall, and Hospital space can be combined to accommodate a larger event with a layout for 500 – 600 people. The Alcatraz inmates took nice hot showers. The entire eastern side of the island from the powerhouse to and including the southeastern end of the island would be off-limits to convicts. It is now protected by soft-steel grating. Put tool-proof window guards on all windows of the cell room proper. On the northwest wall of the cell room is a stair that goes to the shower room. In contrast to the army regime, prisoners were now to be restricted to only the area containing the prison, the utility building at the northwest end of the island, and the laundry shops building adjacent to the power plant. The army water boat was to continue to furnish water to Alcatraz on its regular harbor runs with the Justice Department paying its share of the cost. (See PDF version for charts and source notes)
No buildings were to be erected on the island without the approval of the War Department. Alcatraz Shower Room Massacre. Replace all doorways with new plate or grating doors and frames. Thus the military prisoners continued to operate the laundry, while the Bureau of Prisons revamped the prison facilities.
Second Floor: Since the department has decided not to use the assembly hall (it later did) or any rooms on this floor, recommend that the present three wooden bridges connecting the second floor to the floor of the second tier of cells be removed and the openings to the assembly hall be dosed with concrete. VIII. A wall light box should be placed on the back wall of each cell, so fastened that it cannot be tampered with from the cell side but from the utility passage side. For Desperate Or Irredeemable Types U.S. Penitentiary
The door to the chaplain's office should be closed with concrete. Park rangers are really nice and knowledgeable. For Desperate Or Irredeemable Types U.S. PenitentiaryVIII. Shower Room – Dinner/reception for up to 200 people. In the stair hall there is a trap door to the- roof; it should have a steel grating with frame and with a prison lock. Alcatraz's survivor 97,915 views. Name. Email. But the thing is, nearly a century later, many, many sources have reported hearing banjo music coming from the prison shower room. Bunge's report also made the following recommendations: Guard barracks (building 64)--Bunge thought it should be used as quarters for guard personnel; however, its entire interior should be gutted as it was wooden and a dangerous firetrap. It was readily apparent that the Bureau of Prisons required time to remodel the prison before the first federal prisoners could be brought there. Put new grating door between cell room and mess hall, to be the sliding slam-door type.
Put new double plate and grating doors between the cell room and the outside stairway on the northeast corner of the cell room (one of the old granite entrances from the former Citadel) . What determined where an inmate lived in the cellhouse?New Alcatraz inmates started out on "Fish Row", the floor-level cells (called "the 32. It is now protected by soft-steel grating.