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

Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too costly to operate — three times more costly than any other federal prison. It's not coming back.

As children, the boys once figured out how to reuse a punctured tire by packing the hole full of moss, Widner told CNN. When the Anglins were paired in adjoining cells at Alcatraz next to Morris ...

A prison guard kneels in 1962 by the escape hole in Frank Morris’ cell. Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz ... of contacts from people who said they ...

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

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and ...

People who visit Lake Berryessa for boating, fishing or swimming may not be aware that its waters now cover the location of a ...

In the 1993 cult classic So I Married an Axe Murderer, Phil Hartman infamously portrayed Alcatraz tour guide John Johnson, who identifies as “Vicky.