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.” ...

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

The infamous prison closed on March 21 ... was one of three inmates who escaped Alcatraz grounds in 1962. The three convicts built papier-mache dummy heads and placed them in their beds to ...

Armed with robots, lasers, and specialized drones, Pete Kelsey and his team 3D-mapped all of Alcatraz Island, gaining access ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

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There are no fences or barricades here either, just warning signs. Keeping curious outsiders off the prison grounds can be a much bigger issue than stopping escaping convicts. Eichhöfer says the ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...