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

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too costly to operate — three times more costly than any other federal prison. It's not coming back.

Visitors to the notorious prison contemplated Trump’s idea from inside cramped, windowless cells.

Located on an island off the coast of San Francisco, Alcatraz has been shut for decades. But now Donald Trump says he wants ...

The Birdman of Alcatraz spent six years in a cell there. The block’s dire ... Even officials were disgusted by the conditions inside the prison. In 1939, US Attorney General Frank Murphy ...

Inside the prison, the issue would have gone straight to an administration ... There it was added to a delivery cart that a ...

Let's reserve one unit for the most notorious of criminals: a man capable of high crimes, violations of the United States ...

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

President Trump made a surprising request Sunday evening when he posted on Truth Social, “Rebuild, and open Alcatraz ... one of the prison’s standard nine-by-five-foot cells, he ...

turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco has channeled the public’s macabre fascination with life inside the notorious prison ...

Alcatraz, the infamous island prison once home to America's most dangerous criminals, is set to reopen its doors, according ...