A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists ...

Imprisoned 42 years for a murder he didn’t commit, Jimmy Soto was released from Stateville on Dec. 13, 2023. At the age of 62, he began the formidable work of starting his life once again.

The family of a mentally ill man who died in prison is demanding to know if the Ontario government has implemented any ...

A federal judge said Monday there's no rule barring a plaintiff from making inconsistent or contradicting prior arguments ...

The audit from the California Office of the Inspector General warns lives could be lost if prisons don’t improve their ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster of the same name. The inmate's real name was Robert Stroud, who had spent 54 ...

A corrections officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal beating of a handcuffed inmate at an upstate New York ...

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

On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a federal penitentiary again than the Democratic pols who run San Francisco.

Thousands of people have lined the roads around the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace as British and allied troops ...