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 ...

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

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.

Alcatraz Island has ... in 1918 and was thrown into the “hole” for two weeks — described by the National Park Service as a “pitch-dark dungeon cell with slimy walls, crawling with rats.” ...