Locking down offenders in tiny cells on an island surrounded by swirling ... spun from notorious tales of gangster inmates like Al Capone and movies featuring desperados and rough justice ...

Falling asleep at night in his cell on the remote island ... The facility housed many violent criminals over its 30 years - Al Capone; Robert Stroud, a murderer known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz ...

Since the prison doors of Alcatraz last slammed shut, the island — nicknamed "The Rock" — has become a popular tourist destination, but now the president wants it rebuilt to crack down on violent ...

A rerun of the classic movie Escape from Alcatraz coincidentally aired in southern Florida just before Trump revealed his ...

Trump later told reporters his plan was “just an idea ... the prison’s standard nine-by-five-foot cells, he mopped floors and did laundry. “Al Capone gets no more privileges than the rest ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal ...

EL PAÍS paid a visit to the world’s most famous prison. It closed 62 years ago, but now, the US president wants to reopen it as a symbol of his tough-on-crime policies ...

The main cellhouse contained 336 cells across three ... mob boss Alphonse "Al" Capone. Convicted of tax evasion, Capone was one of Alcatraz’s first high-profile inmates, serving time from 1934 to 1939 ...

A prison cell block at Alcatraz Island on Aug.15, 2023 in San Francisco. Gangster Alphonse ‘Al’ Capone poses for a mugshot on his arrival at Alcatraz on Aug. 22, 1934, in San Francisco. (Photo by ...

But nearly a century before Pharrell and Gucci Mane, there was another man unsatisfied by the bling on his factory-made watch: the gangster Al Capone, whose custom pocket watch is coming up for ...