New evidence suggests that at least one convict escaped from Alcatraz ... intricate prison escapes in history three tireless inmates break from the fortresslike Alcatraz Island Federal ...

Best prison break movies of all time ... which details the infamous 1962 escape from the high-security Alcatraz Federal ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

As a dogged federal manhunt ... “To me, Out of Alcatraz is a classic ’60s crime/road movie,” said artist Tyler Crook. “These convicts, free of the world’s most secure prison, are ...

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

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 ...

America's most infamous maximum security prison Alcatraz, home to the country's most dangerous criminals, is considered to be an impenetrable fortress. A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber ...

Built over a desolated island on the coast of San Francisco, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary made history as the darkest pit you could hide prisoners from 1934 to 1963. The imposing fortress ...