QUICK HIT: Growing Up On Alcatraz
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Could "The Rock" ever reopen?
President Trump says he wants to take a closer look at the prison, that "represents something strong when it comes to law and order." What should we know about one of America's most notorious prisons? Jolene Babyak grew up on Alcatraz and has become one of the nation's leading experts on the prison. She joins us with some insider perpsective on life on the island and what to consider about its future.
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| 1:00.1 | Could Alcatraz ever open again? |
| 1:02.8 | We're going to talk to a woman who live there with her family |
| 1:05.3 | and is one of the premier experts on the nation's most notorious prison. |
| 1:10.4 | Her story next on Smarter News. |
| 1:18.9 | Alcatraz. Just saying the word out loud instantly brings you an image, a place, a movie, |
| 1:24.6 | a feeling. Alcatraz is notorious because there's truly nothing |
| 1:28.2 | like it. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I can't even imagine the city without it. It's such a |
| 1:32.4 | part of the view out towards the Golden Gate and such a part of the city's story. Alcatraz is, |
| 1:38.4 | I would say, the ultimate, right? Nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there, but they, as you know, the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up. And it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems. Just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we're going to look at it. |
| 2:02.6 | Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And we had a little conversation. |
| 2:08.6 | I think it's going to be very interesting. We'll see if we can bring it back. |
| 2:12.4 | The island itself in San Francisco Bay was discovered around the same time of the American Revolution |
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