Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal ... prison’s fearsome reputation. The activists, who had brought sleeping bags and moved into the ...

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 ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling ... The last inmate to leave the 29-year-old island prison was Frank C. Weatherman, age 29, a gun smuggler who ...

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison ... federal penitentiary, carried 35-year-old ...

But there's one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don't want. It's the for-profit prison that would hold ICE ...

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz ... old building that backed up onto it. Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison ...