“What’s on the Island?” “At first, absolutely nothing. They let people fend for themselves. The inmates had to find their own food, shelter, everything, so of course, the majority of them died within months of getting there, whether from starvation or each other. The only ‘supervision’ they had were eight guard stations a hundred yards off the coast in the water. They were connected together by strings of barbed wire that go all around the island to keep people from coming and going by boat without authorization.”
