Earlyamericancrime.com Website Review

An exploration of crime, criminals, and punishments from America’s past. PLACES AND EVENTS: EARLY AMERICAN CRIME IN SAN FRANCISCO (AND I DON’T MEAN ALCATRAZ) daughter said after our tour, “Of all the prisons I have visited, this one definitely ranks in the top three!”). But if you decide to take the boat from Pier 33 at Fisherman’s Wharf out to the island, you should also plan to stroll down to Pier 45 and The Musée Mécanique is a working museum of antique coin-operated arcade machines, and many of them involve themes of crime and punishment (see below). But even if these displays are too gruesome for you, there are plenty of other old-fashioned games and amusements my recent visit to this historical prison. But given my latest articles on prison food, I can not pas* up posting some of the Prisoner meals were governed by “Alcatraz Regulation #33: DINING ROOM RULES”: > Meals are served three times a day in the dining room. Do not exceed > the ration. Do not waste food. Working in the kitchen was one of the best jobs a prisoner could have (although I would certainly be nervous if they had easy access to the I decided to find out more about food served in early American prisons. During my research, I came across a description of the meals > The diet served to the convicts is, for breakfast, cocoa shells > boiled, and sweetened with molas*es, and rye bread; dinner, ox-head > soup, and the meat attached to the head, with potatoes and rye > bread, some times salt meat and peas; supper, mush and molas*es. The > cost of the breakfast, dinner and supper, is from 5 to 6 cents per > man per day. From this description of the food served to prisoners, I tracked down recipes for these meals in cookbooks from around the same time period. The recipes may not exactly reflect what was served to the prisoners–my guess is that less care and fewer quality ingredients went into the preparation of their meals–but they should give an idea of what the prisoners regularly ate.