I went to the Alcatraz prison! It is in a city called San Francisco, California, in the middle of the water. It used to hold soldiers but when there were soldiers the doors all opened at the same time. When it was holding very bad people and not soldiers they opened one-by-one. There were bigger prisons when they had soldiers and smaller prisons for the very bad people. The A section was only open on Sundays and we were there on Sunday so we got to see it. It was still set up for when it housed only soldiers. My favorite part was the fake people in the prison cells.