Island of Lonely Men: Costa Rica’s Alcatraz

World View July 15, 2014 by Erin Van Rheenen Why do travelers, presumably out for a good time, head to former island prisons like San Francisco’s Alcatraz, South Africa’s Robben Island or – my personal favorite – Costa Rica’s Isla San Lucas? Is it to contemplate the way societies mete out reward and punishment? To wonder how we'd hold up if we ended up in such a place? To scan the perimeter and plot our escape? From 1893 to 1989, inmates arrived at…