Although Ronnie Biggs escaped from

Although Ronnie Biggs escaped from prison quite easily, it is usually very difficult. One of the famous prisons in the world is Alcatraz, which is on an island in san Francisco bay, in the USA. Alcatraz was a prison from 1934 to 1963 and, in that time, thirty-six men tried to escape. Twenty-three were caught, six were shot and killed, and two drowned while trying to swim to San Francisco. Nobody knows for certain what happened to the other five man, but ther