~By Bonnie Tsui
WHAT I remember most about a nighttime tour I took of Alcatraz a couple of years ago was the fact that -- given the nearness of the island prison to downtown San Francisco, just a mile and a half offshore -- inmates were often haunted by the sounds of life across the water. When city residents held New Year's Eve parties and their reveling carried across the cold, current-roiled bay, the two shores seemed maddeningly close to the prisoners.
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