John Anglin, along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris, was one of three inmates who escaped Alcatraz grounds in 1962. The three convicts built papier-mache dummy heads and placed them in ...

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

However, the brazen escape is just the latest in a string of ... which houses four separate prisons and is known as ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) --Fifty years ago they were seeking ways to escape, but Saturday some former inmates of Alcatraz, older and possibly wiser, traveled back for a reunion on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling ... deteriorating buildings which contributed to recent escape attempts. The last inmate to leave the 29-year ...

When Ai began researching Alcatraz, what struck him most were the narratives of attempted escape. For inmates, San Francisco was tantalizingly close; on a calm, clear evening they could hear the ...

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 ...

The inmates formulate an escape plan and on the 2nd of May 1946 ... But the prisoners didn't count on the Warden's determination to maintain Alcatraz's fearsome reputation. Soon they are facing ...

On arrival, the team stayed on the island for three weeks — sleeping in cells in the notorious D-block where, historically, some of Alcatraz’s most dangerous inmates have been held.

However, the brazen escape is just the latest ... prisons and is known as “Indonesia’s Alcatraz”, is not immune to prison breaks. In 2024, an inmate walked out of the front gate of one ...