Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

None of the nine Aryan Brotherhood members convicted thus far have spent a single day in federal prison, which was supposed ...

(CNN) — The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands. In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay ... lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock ... Congressmen from California are currently exploring legislation to establish a commission that will ...

A 21-year-old Honduran national was sentenced to over four years in prison on Thursday for money laundering and selling drugs in San ... the Northern District of California, said in a statement.

A fellow inmate at a California prison explained why he attacked Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife and unborn son. In a phone interview with the San Francisco Chronicle from ...

The actual span of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area encompasses multiple places in San Mateo (south of San Francisco), San Francisco and Marin counties (Alcatraz and Muir Woods included ...