Clarence Anglin refused to open his eyes for his mugshot as he arrived at Alcatraz in ... maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation’s most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone.

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 ...

prominently displayed on a wall in one of America’s most famous prison – Alcatraz – cast a dark pall over any inmate who called it home. For long, Alcatraz was just a lonely island in the ...

Some 36 inmates did attempt escape over the 29 years between 1934 and 1969 that Alcatraz was a prison, but most were recaptured, or shot and killed in the process. In a famous 1962 escape on which ...