Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour & each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted & ruined our lives Jim Quillen AZ586
- a runaway problem child & petty thief
- was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday In August 1942 after escaping from San Quentin he was arrested on the run & sentenced to forty-five years in prison & later transferred to Alcatraz This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison
- from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman' & what really happened during the desperate & deadly 1946 escape attempt