Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the island became a prison of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized to meet the requirements of a top-notch security prison. Given this high security and the location of Alcatraz in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, the prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's strongest prison. Alcatraz was designed to hold prisoners who continuously caused trouble at other federal prisons. One of the world's most notorious and best known prisons over the years, Alcatraz housed some 1,576 of America's most ruthless criminals including Al Capone,
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens cure. The Smedry Talents have been broken. On top of it all Alcatraz had come to question his own motivations and reconsider his relationship towards his villainous mother. Aydee Ecks, a cousin of Alcatraz's, has the talent of being really bad at math. It was very useful during the battle against the Librarians in Mokia, because Aydee used her talent to give them more exploding teddy bears, which were used to halt the Librarian robots. Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in December 2010 by Scholastic Press.