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

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.

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

The man convicted of starting a fire near Cabazon that killed five firefighters will remain on death row, after the California Supreme Court ruling published Monday found no validity to his arguments ...

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 ...

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

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious ...

For decades, it was known as the site of one of the most unforgiving federal prisons in the country. “Break the rules and you ...