From Al Capone to George "Machine Gun" Kelly, more than 1,500 men were incarcerated at Alcatraz during the nearly 30 years it was in operation in the San Francisco Bay. The infamous prison-turned ...

“The Rock,” as Alcatraz was nicknamed, was widely heralded to be inescapable. Not so for Al Capone whose unchecked syphilis destroyed his brain while he was an inmate there, confined to Cell ...

Alcatraz Prison, situated on a small island off the coast of San Francisco, California, opened. Until 1963, “The Rock” was home to more than 1,500 hardened criminals, including Al Capone, who ...

During its time as a federal prison, which spanned almost 30 years, Alcatraz housed a total of over 1,500 inmates. Read about the most infamous inmates below: Al Capone spent time at several ...

Move over Al Capone. There’s a new star at Alcatraz. A different type of jail bird. She fast. She’s sleek. And she has four sidekicks. Biologists from the National Park Service have turned on ...

From the mid 1930's until the mid 1960's, Alcatraz ("the Rock") was America's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone.

Its most notorious inmates included gangsters James "Whitey" Bulger, Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly, plus infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz" Robert Stroud and "Public Enemy No. 1" Alvin Karpis.

Read about the most infamous inmates below: ALCATRAZ 2.0: FMR. FBI AGENT FLOATS 'PERFECT' NEW PRISON SITE THAT WOULD SCARE EVEN MOST HARDENED CRIMINALS Al Capone spent time at several prisons ...