President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...

including Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly and James “Whitey” Bulger. The prison, which closed 60 years ago due to its crumbling infrastructure and high maintenance costs ...

Alcatraz once held notorious criminals like Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly ... death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. While at Leavenworth Prison, he became an expert on birds, authoring ...

Long before visitors toured Alcatraz or famous inmates like Al Capone arrived to serve time ... Eventually, the military transferred Sloluck to Fort Leavenworth and finally allowed him to join ...

Before I visited Alcatraz, I taught for two years inside Leavenworth, the U.S. penitentiary ... including George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Al Capone, Mickey Cohen and Arthur “Doc” Barker ...

Residing in one of the prison’s standard nine-by-five-foot cells, he mopped floors and did laundry. “Al Capone gets no more ... he earned his nickname in Leavenworth, where he saved the ...

including Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly and James “Whitey” Bulger. The prison, which closed 60 years ago due to its crumbling infrastructure and high maintenance costs ...

Alcatraz’s time as an operating prison was relatively brief, but the stories that sprang from its seemingly endless lines of cold cells and ... its infamous inmates (Al Capone, Robert Stroud ...

Perched on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, the maximum-security penitentiary gained a fearsome reputation for holding infamous figures such as Al Capone, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly ...