First off, there is more than one kind of stem cell. Human stem cells are unique because they have the potential to become a specialized cell and can divide and renew themselves, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Doing Time as a Federal Prison: 1934-63. In 1933, the Army relinquished Alcatraz to the U.S. Justice Department, which wanted a federal prison that could house a criminal population too difficult or dangerous to be handled by other U.S. penitentiaries.
One reason was money. Alcatraz had always been an ex-pensive proposition, being. on an island. Everything had to take a boat ride to get to Alcatraz, even water and. food, and they had to run a power plant to generate electricity on Alcatraz. One. congressman claimed that it would have cost less to house the inmates at the. Waldorf Astoria--with room service--than it cost the taxpayers to keep them at. Alcatraz.