Plenty of movies have used Alcatraz Island as a memorable setting, including classics like The Rock, Escape from Alcatraz, ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military ... have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank ...

President Trump signed an executive order instructing justice officials to review the conditions of prisoners receiving ...

The Missouri State Penitentiary is worth exploring in Missouri’s capital city. See why a trip to this infamous prison should ...

Alice Speed Stoll was held for ransom for several days in October 1934, but was later returned. Her kidnapped wouldn't be ...

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

He spent 18 years at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco, but was also held in several other prisons before his release in 1970. He died in 1994. Alice Speed Stoll died on March 26 ...