I spent a week there and visited Alcatraz. It was a profound experience, especially when you learned stories of things that happened there and you actually got to touch the walls. One story in particular really moved me…A man was put in solitary confinment (complete darkness) but to keep himself from going insane, he removed the button from his shirt, threw it on the ground and began to search for it in the dark. The best part of this story is that when you are being told it, you are standing in the same cell as this man was in, and it is completely dark.