There is no prison more prolific than Alcatraz, so it should come as no surprise that some of its past inmates have been equally notorious. Alcatraz Penitentiary was the country's premiere maximum ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Island in January 1932 ... and real human hair that apparently fooled the night guards. The prison went into lock down, and an intensive search began.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock ... Congress has tried to put a lock on the clock, get rid of seasonal time change and decide whether to ...

Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor has recently revealed that he was offered a boxing match at the infamous ...

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.” ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz ...

More than 60 years after three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, the U.S. Marshals Service is not giving up on capturing them. The U.S. Marshals on Wednesday released age-progressed ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison in his mind. Sitting at a long wooden table within ...

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 ...