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Flick: The misery of 'escaping' Alcatraz
On almost every “must-do” list for tourists visiting San Francisco is to board a ferry and sail out into the Pacific Ocean, to Alcatraz Island, site of America’s most storied and unescapable penitentiaries, once occupied by the country’s most heinous …