Bill Baker was only 23 when he was handcuffed, shackled, and thrown on the back of a boat headed for Alcatraz, the infamous ...

Trump has voiced plans to reopen and enlarge the notorious prison, Alcatraz. Will it actually happen? Here's what to know.

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

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Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

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Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand the famed Alcatraz Island prison, which lies off the coast of San ...

President Trump made headlines recently for suggesting that Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay, should be ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...