I remember this green, and I hate it. I’m standing in a preserved cell on Alcatraz Island, staring at the green paint lining ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

Alligator Alcatraz, as the state officially calls the facility, lies in the Everglades about 40 miles west of Miami ...

People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, March 15, 2021, as the historic island prison was reopened to visitors after being closed since Dec. 2020, because of the ...

One of the prison cells on Alcatraz. UPI/AFP via Getty Images “That part was a little scary,” she says, though her mother told her in all likelihood the men had already gotten off the island.

Two rows of cells in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, May 8, ... who was better known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz.” The prison opened on July 1, 1934, and closed 28 years later on March 21, 1963.

A prison guard kneels in 1962 by the escape hole in Frank Morris’ cell. Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz. State police were put on alert.

When Mr. Trump mentions Alcatraz in the same sentence as Sing Sing, a similarly ancient prison in New York, and then refers to “the movies,” the jig is mostly up.

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast of California, and, a flock of seabirds.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...