A Day and Life of Me in Alcatraz
Long, long ago, in 1958, I committed a very serious crime. I killed all the children in the country. For that I was sent to the world’s biggest prison: Alcatraz. I was sentenced there for life. I am single with no kids. I was sent to live in very dark cell with a bed, a sink, and a toilet. It had a window with the whole view of San Francisco. The view of San Francisco from Alcatraz is beautiful. Just as it always is. That was the only good thing about Alcatraz. The rest of the stuff is bad. You’ll know as you read this story.
My daily routine in Alcatraz starts at 6:30 A.M. I wake up, take a shower, brush my hair, brush my teeth, get dressed and stand behind the door of my cell. Then I get called to go to breakfast. After breakfast, I get sent to the workshop to work. I had to spend two hours of stressful, pain-staking work. I do jobs such as gardening, laundry, and custodial duties. After two hours of slavery work, I go to lunch. After lunch, I go to the recreation yard and exercise. I exercised for two hours. In addition to that, I went back to the workshop and do more work. Two more hours of it. After that , I was called to the dinner table. After dinner, I was locked in for the night. Finally, at 9:30, I go to sleep.
Everyday, I am in a mental state where I hated myself for doing such a terrible crime. Where I had to think about what I have done. That is what I felt like that is the only thing I had to do. There was no television, radio, or newspaper. All I had to do was read magazines and think about what I had done.
The communication I had in prison was bad. They got in trouble and had a lot of violence in prison. There were people bringing knives to me everywhere I go. At one time, they killed someone. They got in trouble with the FBI. I didn’t get a chance to communicate with people in the outside world because they have no phone in prison. On holidays we don’t get along ether. The general population of San Francisco was very much different from inside the prison. People were having a much better time there than I am having. They didn’t have to work all the time and stay at home like I did. There were a lot of fighting outside of the prison but not as much fighting as inside of prison. In Alcatraz, it is colder. On holidays, we had candy and after the holidays it got taken away. We all had to stay in our cells for weeks. For a very long time. We didn’t get to go to the movies, go out to the park, go shopping or anything. We just stayed in our cells. People were going with handcuffs. We had to be chained to our cells. The people also got to experience the beauty of San Francisco. They got to go out to the movies and go to parties an night clubs and all that stuff while we had to be chained to our cells. While we had to work all the time, people were just sitting around watching TV and kicking back. I hoped that someday, I would get out of this terrible threshold and go somewhere else other than Alcatraz.
In 1963, when Alcatraz closed, I was sent to a prison in Nevada. I am glad I got out of Alcatraz. I hated Alcatraz all my life and I am still in jail now. I feel very bad for what I have done. I feel so bad that I killed all of the children. Right now, I am locked up for good. I am never able to see my family and friends. My parents would not be very proud of me that I am in a convict and I am staying in prison all my life. I am glad I escaped from Alcatraz.
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