Despite an extensive manhunt, the three were never found, leaving behind America’s most enduring prison mystery. After 29 ...

William Baker, 91, is believed to be one of the last living inmates of Alcatraz. He has harrowing tales to tell, including about the time he tried to escape.

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

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State ...

“Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

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

Around 1910, Alcatraz was being used to house military prisoners, who built the island's iconic three-story cell house that ...

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The dramatic ...