There are no beds, no chairs, no blankets — nothing. While Alcatraz held more than 200 killers, robbers and other excessively ...

US President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress ...

There are plenty of hideouts in the rugged terrain of the Ozark Mountains where searchers are hunting for an ex-lawman known ...

The island known as The Rock has always been on people’s minds in San Francisco, but the current foreboding comes from ...

Staff from the Federal Bureau of Prisons visited the infamous site this week under instructions from Donald Trump ...

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate ...

The premises were home to a certain Al “Scarface” Capone ... would be opened at Alcatraz off the coast of San Francisco. Though Capone had been a model inmate at previous penitentiaries ...

A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to squeeze through the gap and escape the ...

Once a Civil War prison, Alcatraz became the fortress of the 1930s, home to notorious criminals like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun ... and frequent prisoner checks—escape seemed impossible. Yet, ...

Directed by Don Siegel, this iconic film is based on John Campbell Bruce’s 1963 account of the infamous Alcatraz prison escape in 1962. The movie stars the Bay Area’s own Clint Eastwood as ...

President Trump stated Sunday, May 4 that he is directing, “…the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to ...