Thursday, July 12, 2012


Jerry Hatch, Island Security chief, my uncle Vernon Conway in the background was on the Island Council. John Jiminez is in the glasses. This pic was taken in the guards' family apartments (1970-Alcatraz Indian Occupation)

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Life on the Rock: Prison Industry Building (1970)


The prison laundry building. Here's where me and my brother along with our friend Ralph used old laundry carts and dollies to build go-carts that we'd race down the steep slopes of the Island. We had a ton of fun.