who filed aboard the Alcatraz prison boat "Warden Blackwell" for the 10-minute trip on San Francisco Bay to Fort Mason Army dock. There a chartered bus transported them to an undisclosed airport ...

According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

America's most infamous maximum security prison Alcatraz ... But the prisoners didn't count on the Warden's determination to maintain Alcatraz's fearsome reputation. Soon they are facing not ...

Reporter says prison is eerily quiet Next Article in U.S. » CNN justice producer Terry Frieden was part of the first-ever media tour of the U.S. Bureau of Prison's Administrative Maximum prison -- ...

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 ...

The Alcatraz of the Rockies, officially known as the United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum (ADX), is the ...

Loosely based on the trial of Henri Young (a case that would change how prisoners on the island were treated), the film’s ...

Saudi boxing boss Turki Alalshikh has expressed interest in hosting a boxing event inside the former Alcatraz prison, off the coast of San Francisco, in June or July of this year. And McGregor ...

One of the stops was Marquette State Prison, a maximum security facility nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the North." While they were there, the warden, Emery Jacques, repeatedly asked Adams to bring ...

In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for ... However, the warden, Harvey Shoemaker, decides to keep Stroud in ...