Mark Fairhurst called for the American model, which isolates violent inmates - locking them in their cells for 23 hours a day - to be introduced before it's too late.

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

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

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

The president’s call to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island is right in line with his sadistic notion of justice, no matter the cost or the physical obstacles to turning The Rock — ...

The name of Napoleon,” said the French emperor Napoleon III, “is a program in itself.” The same is true of Alcatraz, or as ...

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

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison - Charlie Hopkins believes president is not ...

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