The Amazing True Story Of The Great Escape From Alcatraz

Collecting The Equipment

How do you gather resources when you are stuck in your cell all day? Well, luckily for them, the prison also doubled as a factory. Prisoners could earn a ‘living’ by working on things for the US military, making furniture, clothes or shoes.

This gave them access to a substantial amount of resources that imaginative and intelligent people could use for an escape! Since the four of them were sent to Alcatraz for non-violent crimes, they managed to stay relatively under the radar from guards.