These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

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PERCHED on a rocky island a mile out to sea from San Francisco looms the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. One of the ...

One of three cell tiers of individual cells at the main block of the Alcatraz ... The prison's isolation in San Francisco Bay contributed to its mystique, particularly regarding escape attempts.

On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a ...

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

Trump’s latest inspiration is to restore Alcatraz to a working federal prison. Picture it: Convicts locked up behind gold ...

“You put all that together, and that’s how the escape occurred.” Investigators found the men punched out holes in their cell walls ... to “Warden, Alcatraz Prison” turned up June 18 ...