Last Train to Alcatraz

Last Train to Alcatraz by Leon (Whitey) Thompson was a book about a man’s struggle to change his whole life and basically turn right side up. Leon started out as a poor kid living in a small city. The only way he could survive was to steal food from stores. As he grew up this stealing attitude kind of “grew on him” as he started out robbing candy stores and stealing the money. As …

…it should not take kids that long. He basically wanted to reach kids before bad ideas got into their heads. That is why I liked this book so much. I visited Alcatraz and actually meet Leon Thompson, and the book just interested me on how he changed his whole life around. If all the prisoners and ex-convicts could do what Leon has done, there would be hardly any crime out in the United States today.