Donald Trump Jr. suggested that he wants to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for undocumented immigrants amid President ...

Here are some of the more notorious penitentiaries that are worth checking out. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (United States) From 1934 to 1963, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz ...

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison once considered inescapable. Frank Morris, along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin, orchestrated a ...

But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. More widely known as the ADX or the "Alcatraz of the ...

U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row ... Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...