SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

Clarence Anglin refused to open his eyes for his mugshot as he arrived at Alcatraz in ... maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation’s most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone.

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison once considered inescapable. Frank ...

Some 36 inmates did attempt escape over the 29 years between 1934 and 1969 that Alcatraz was a prison, but most were recaptured, or shot and killed in the process. In a famous 1962 escape on which ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison in ... scans of old mug shots.