Kids on the Rock
DECEMBER 9, 2006 Listen to this Story
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Alcatraz was the end of the line for federal prisoners who had tried to escape from other prisons or murdered guards or other prisoners. The maximum security penitentiary on an island in the bay about a mile out from San Francisco housed some of the most famous criminals in American history, and no one ever escaped alive. But it wasn't as austere as you'd think. At least not for the children who lived there. From the time the prison opened in 1934 to its closure in 1963 hundreds of children, the sons and daughters of prison employees, lived on the island. Reporter Julie Small tells us more about their lives.
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