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BUILD A PRISON FOR THE WORLD’S
MOST DANGEROUS MEN.
>> THIS GAME TEMPO TERM PUBLIC
ENEMY NUMBER ONE THE SITE?
A TINY ISLAND, SHARK INFESTED WATERS PRISON WORK IN A PRISON
WATERS PRISON WORK IN A PRISON IN A GOVERNMENT
IN A GOVERNMENT.
♪ I’M STUART BARNEY THIS IS
I’M STUART BARNEY THIS IS
AMERICAN BUILT.
ATTICA, THESE ARE THE NAMES ANY
CRIMINAL THREATS AND NO PRISON
IS MORE INFAMOUS ONE OF THE TINY
ISLAND IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY BUT IT WASN’T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
IT WASN’T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 181906.
♪
5:12 A.M., THE WALLS BEGAN TO
SHAKE.
7.9 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE
UNBLEACHED.
ON THE GOLDEN GATE CITY.
>> IT WAS LIKE THE END OF THE
WORLD ALMOST BIBLICAL DISASTER.
>> WHEN THE RUMBLING STOPPED,
MORE THAN 3000 PEOPLE WERE DEAD.
200,000 WERE HOMELESS AT THE
HOME CITY’S JAILS WERE IN FLAMES
FLAMES.
>> A BIG PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU
HAVE THREE CITY JAILS RAMP
PRISONERS RELEASING A BUNCH OF
CRIMINALS OUT INTO THE
DEVASTATED LANDSCAPE, A
NONSTARTER MOVIE FOR CITIES
INMATES, THE NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN
TOWN, THOMAS O’NEILL.
>> THE CLASSIC VERSION OF THE
OLD WEST ON.
HE MANNED UP GOT HIS JOB.
>> O’NEILL MARCHED A LINE OF
CONVICTS TO A PRISON STEAMED 9
MILES NORTH TO SANDPOINT.
>> WHEN THEY GOT THERE, THE WORD
SAYS THEY ARE NOT PRISONERS, HOW
ABOUT TAKING THEM TO THE FRONT
BOAT TURNS AROUND AND SAYS BACK.
THE GET TO SAN FRANCISCO AND
SEEK REFUGEES FROM THE QUAKE
ROUTING, WAVING ARMS AND YELLING
TO BE TAKEN FOR THE BOAT SO THEY
COULD MOVED AWAY FROM THE CITY,
TO.
THAT’S A NONSTARTER AS WELL
SEVEN HE GETS A BRIGHT IDEA, BUT
TRY ALCATRAZ.
♪
>> MILITARY PRISON, ORIGINALLY
CONSTRUCTED TO GUARD THE MERYL
STREEP CONNECTING THE PACIFIC IN
SAN FRANCISCO BAY.
TAKING INTO INMATES HIGHLIGHTED
ALCATRAZ WITH LIMITATIONS.
>> THERE’S JUST ENOUGH ROOM TO
TAKE THESE PEOPLE IN THEY ARE
REALLY BULGING AT THE SEAMS.
IT WAS DECIDED IF ALCATRAZ WOULD
REMAIN MILITARY PRISON, THEY
NEEDED TO BUILD SOMETHING MORE
SECURE AND MORE MANAGEABLE.
>> TO LEAD THE CHARGE FROM A
CONSTRUCTION EXPERT RUBEN PIER
TURNER AND GAVE HIM A QUARTER
FOR MILLING DOLLARS TO BUILD A
BRAND-NEW PRISON.
♪
BUT IF TURNER WERE TO SUCCEED,
YOU HAVE TO SWAP THE PRISONS
WIKI REPUTATION FROM SHREWD
INMATES ESCAPED THE ISLAND BY AN
IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF MANNERS AND
MEANS A PRISONER BUILT A CRATE
AND HAD HIMSELF NAILED INTO A
INTEGRATE WAS SHIPPED OVERNIGHT
TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1903, FOUR
PRISONERS MANAGED TO CLEVERLY
FORGE THEIR OWN RELEASE
DOCUMENTS IN THE 1906, THERE
WERE PRISONERS INVOLVED IN AN
ESCAPE FROM THE BAKERY.
>> TO PREVENT ANY MORE ESCAPES,
TURNER DESIGNED FREESTANDING
CELLBLOCKS, EACH THREE TIERS
HIGH WITH A TOTAL OF 600
THOUSAND.
OUR NONFAT?
500 FOOT-LONG CONCRETE STRUCTURE
INTERNEURONS THAT PROMOTE DEADLY
WATERS.
TURNER’S MASTERWORK WAS A PRISON
WITHIN A PRISON WITHIN A PRISON.
>> THEY SUCCEEDED GETTING OUT OF
THEIR CELL AND THEN THEY HAD TO
GET OUT OF THE PRESENT BUILDING
WHICH IS ANOTHER LAYER OF
CONCRETE AND STEEL AND FENCE
THEY HAD TO GET OFF THE ISLAND.
>> BEFORE HE COULD BUILD A
PRISON TO HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO
LEVEL A FORTRESS.
>> THIS IT IS SO EXISTING ON TOP
OF THE ISLAND PRIOR TO THE MODERN CELL HOUSE STRUCTURE
MODERN CELL HOUSE STRUCTURE
HEAVILY FORTIFIED TURNER DECIDED
TO RATHER THAN DEMOLISH THE
ENTIRE CITADEL, JUST KNOCK OFF
THE TOP TWO FLOORS, LEAVE THE
BASEMENT INTACT AND BUILD A NEW
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE
RIGHT ON TOP OF IT.
>> THERE WAS LIKE A GIANT
THREE-DIMENSIONAL HOW TO REMOVE
THE PIECES AROUND, MAXIMIZE
EFFICIENCY, MINIMIZE EXPENSES.
>> WHO WOULD ACTUALLY DO THE
DANGEROUS FAVOR?
LET’S SAY TURNER DIDN’T HAVE TO
REPORT TOWARD CHAR.
>> THE WORKFORCE WAS A PRISONER.
THEY WERE AVAILABLE, MAYBE NOT
WILLING BUT THEY WERE AVAILABLE.
>> JUST GETTING SUPPLIES TO THE
REMOTE JOBSITE WASN’T RULING
TASK.
>> THEY HAD TO GET THE MATERIAL
ACROSS THE BAY, UNLOADED ON A
DOCK, TREMENDOUS., ONLY ONE
LOCATION TO LAND.
THE WALK CLEARLY FROM THE DOCK
TO THE TOP OF THE ISLAND’S
EQUIVALENT OF A 13 STORY
BUILDING.
>> THANKFULLY THE MOST CRUCIAL
SUPPLY OF ALL RIGHT ON THE ROCK.
>> CONCRETE IS AN INCREDIBLY
VERSATILE MATERIAL STRENGTH
COMPARED TO WHAT AND OTHER
MATERIAL TO MAKE IT ADVENTITIOUS
ADVENTITIOUS.
>> WITH WINDS GUSTING UP TO
100,000 ARE, CONCRETE ALONE WAS
NOT ENOUGH.
>> CONCRETE IS A MATERIAL THAT
PERFORMS VERY WELL IN
COMPRESSION SO IMAGINE A COLUMN
OF CONCRETE AND WEIGHT YOU COULD
ON TOP OF THE COLUMN.
IT DOES VERY WELL IN THAT
FASHION.
IF YOU TAKE THE SAME PROBLEM AND
TURN IT ON AND AS A BEAM, HE
DOESN’T LIKE TO BE IN A
SITUATION WHERE I CAN BED.
>> REINFORCEMENTS, WHO OUT OF
STEEL SUPPORTS FROM CONCRETE
WALLS.
>> IF YOU LOOK AT ROME BUILT
2000 YEARS AGO WITHOUT THE
TECHNOLOGY OF REINFORCING STEEL,
THE WALLS IN THE BUILDING ARE 20
PIECES VERSUS THE FOOT OR SO
THICK ON THE MAIN BUILDING.
>> WHEN IT SET, THE
STATE-OF-THE-ART MILITARY PRISON
BECAME THE LARGEST SHIELD WHEN
FORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE IN THE
WORLD.
NO WIND COULD BLOW THIS PLACE
DOWN AT THE BUILDING WOULD BE
TESTED BY MOTHER NATURE.
>> THIS ENTIRE NEW BLACK MARKET