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The trio, all serving lengthy sentences for bank robbery and other crimes, had been planning their escape for months. They began by digging through the vents in their cells with crude homemade tools, creating a network of tunnels and holes that eventually led to a maintenance corridor.

The short answer is: it didn’t. No escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary occurred in 1979—because by 1979, Alcatraz had already been closed for 16 years. escape+from+alcatraz+19791979

On the night of the escape, the three men crawled through the vents and made their way to the roof of the prison, where they had previously gathered materials to build a makeshift raft. The raft, constructed from over 50 raincoats, was inflated with a bicycle pump and set adrift in the San Francisco Bay. The trio, all serving lengthy sentences for bank