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The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintained the facility to incarcerate a small number of inmates who were so dangerous, so violent, and so escape-prone that they could not be managed safely in other prisons.
Read this passage from “Alcatraz Island” by the National Park Service.
The US penitentiary on Alcatraz opened in 1934. The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintained the facility to incarcerate a small number of inmates who were so dangerous, so violent, and so escape-prone that they could not be managed safely in other prisons. By holding these difficult inmates in one place, the Bureau could keep them under tight control and run its other prisons more safely and effectively. Without the most disruptive inmates, the Bureau developed pioneering rehabilitation programs at its other facilities. Alcatraz inmates seldom numbered more than three hundred at any time.
Which sentence in this passage best helps you understand this question: Why did the government send people to Alcatraz?
A.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintained the facility to incarcerate a small number of inmates who were so dangerous, so violent, and so escape-prone that they could not be managed safely in other prisons.
B.
The US penitentiary on Alcatraz opened in 1934.
C.
By holding these difficult inmates in one place, the Bureau could keep them under tight control and run its other prisons more safely and effectively.
D.
Without the most disruptive inmates, the Bureau developed pioneering rehabilitation programs at its other facilities.
E.
Alcatraz inmates seldom numbered more than three hundred at any time.
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