Discover how a 1962 Popular Mechanics article inspired the legendary Alcatraz escape, blending ingenuity and determination in ...

Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was as much a psychological prison as it was a ...

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

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

Beginning as a fort in the 1850s, the island housed a military prison ... “the hole”, which were bare except for a toilet. The Birdman of Alcatraz spent six years in a cell there.

US President Donald Trump has ordered the reopening and expansion of a notorious prison, which was shut down in 1963.

Even war was not enough to deter Trump from his ambitious goal of cracking down on America's 'migrant crisis.' ...

It is possible that Mr. Trump had “Escape From Alcatraz” on his mind when he declared on social media on Sunday that he had ...