There is no prison more prolific than Alcatraz, so it should come as no ... were gone and an intensive search began. The FBI, the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Prison authorities intensively ...

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

The federal government built the Pacific Coast’s first lighthouse on Alcatraz in 1854 ... fell to her death from the third floor of a former guard residence. A fire burned down the historic ...