At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, James "Whitey" Bulger, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz" all served time at the ...

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

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

Trump announces plans to revive Alcatraz as a federal prison. Explore the infamous facility's history of escape attempts and ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

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

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist ...