Island’s First Prisoners
When it comes to modern times, people know Alcatraz Island for being a prison. It’s as if everyone forgot the military history it has. In 1859, the island saw its first few prisoners. They were soldiers who got incarcerated. Prisoners on the island lived on the most uncomfortable cells, for there wasn’t a single piece of comfy furniture.
The island got used as the prison for Confederate soldiers at the time of the Civil War. People who built the structures on the island didn’t have a jail in mind during the construction process, but it looks like there was always something about the island that made it perfect for imprisonment.