Inmates were drawn to some of the following amenities:
Some of the inmates at Alcatraz preferred the one-man cells because they felt safer there. As the first warden, James A. Johnston was aware of the correlation between poor food quality and inmate unrest in other facilities. Therefore, he took great satisfaction in his good reputation and let prisoners re-up as often as they want. In addition, well-behaved inmates were given perks like monthly movie nights and a library of 15,000 volumes.