Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate ...

Here's a look at some of the most famous criminals to get locked up in the island-based prison off the coast of San Francisco. Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six ... fell to her death from the third floor of a former guard residence.

Donald Trump Jr. floated the idea of reopening Alcatraz prison after his father announced plans to create a new ... also ...