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I don't think you would like the sleeping accom- modations at Alcatraz. The pris- oners certainly did not. The 35-minute cell house recorded tour is optional, but it's very worth the $2.50 rental fee. The narrator of the self-guided tour moves you at your own pace around the cell area, the dining hall, the library and the "hole," where inmates were put into soli- tary confinement. As you walk around the cell block, the recorded tour lets you hear the voices of prisoners as they describe their conditions. "I have no quarrel with society," says one convict. "It ought not 411 Since 1934 Arowhon has been known for intense teaching of skills and personal caring for each camper. In the Canoeing • Riding Lighthouse ./ , Warden's House A map of the island. 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The prisoners spent 16 to 23 house a day in this hole in the wall. The recorded tour tape lets you listen as the prisoners loudly greet and taunt the new inmate. The sounds are frightening. Then the narrator invites you to enter an open cell.The cell is empty; and the barred door is open, but I entered`with a pound- ing heart; and I was glad to get our of the cell as quickly as pos- sible. This is the kind of cell Al Capone spent 4.5 years in. You also see the cell that was occu- pied by Robert Stroud, the fa- mous Birdman of Alcatraz. And you learn that the Birdman ca- naries during his stay at Leav- enworth, but never had feathered friends during his stay on the Rock. Hollywood rewrote history one more time. Throughout its history, 36 pris- oners tried to escape from Alca- traz. All were recaptured except for five who are still missing.