The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison raises more questions than answers for a beloved San ...

To some in this city, turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco ...

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

In the post, Trump said he was directing the DOJ, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to look into rebuilding and ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

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

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

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

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...