New tour delves deeper into life at Alcatraz

25 May 2007

As part of a $3.5 (£ 1.8)-million renovation aimed at making San Francisco’s Alcatraz more accessible, visitors now enter Alcatraz the same way new inmates did: through the dank shower room where "fresh fish" were hosed off before being issued their jail clothes.
In addition some of the new features also include new museum displays of artefacts that have never been on public view. A collection of shivs, or knives honed secretly by prisoners from kitchen utensils or smuggled scrap metal, shows how dangerous the prison was for guards.

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