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

The first detainees arrived at Alligator Alcatraz late Wednesday night, even as the immigration detention facility in the ...

For nearly three decades, Alcatraz held 260 prisoners — fewer than 1% of the entire federal inmate population at that time. Long before that, the infamous 22-acre rocky island sitting in the San ...

The 1962 Escape The most famous Alcatraz breakout came on June 11, 1962, when Frank Morris, along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin, vanished from the prison in a brilliantly executed escape.

But it did not wash up on shore. It arrived by mail. The postcard addressed to “Warden, Alcatraz Prison” turned up June 18, signed “Frank, Jim, Clarence,” each in a different hand.

The last known living inmate to serve time in the infamous Alcatraz prison reveals what haunted him most about being locked up on the island as President Trump flirts with the idea of reopening.

The plan didn't work - prison guards discovered the blades in other inmates' cells, Hopkins said. "A few days after they locked them up, they locked me up," he said.

That’s one of the reasons why an estimated 1.4 million people take the lonely boat ride out there every year, to tour its dateless interior and peer through the bars into Al Capone’s old cell.

Alcatraz is in the bay and visible from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for its years as a federal prison, from 1934-63, but its history is much longer.

The Alcatraz Prison, Mr. Cummings declared, would be a place from which “escapes are practically impossible,” surrounded by swift currents and distant from the accomplices that might otherwise ...

Alcatraz tickets made up about 15% of sales last year, said sales manager Evie Sobolev. The same goes for Dylan’s Tours, which has operated tours around San Francisco and Muir Woods for two decades.