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 ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

While Alcatraz’s most famous inmates were convicted felons like Capone, in earlier times the facility also held what might be called prisoners of conscience, including, in World War I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alcatraz, one of the America’s most notorious ... closed down in 1963 after housing some of the country’s most famous inmates ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Island in January 1932 ... The 1962 escape is probably the most famous prison break in American history, and the three men involved have never been located, dead or ...

They are vetted by officials, and prisoners who may pose a threat or disrupt their structure are denied. One of Bastøy Prison's most famous inmates was Arnfinn Nesset, who murdered 22 people ...

The blacksmith shop on Alcatraz once held vocational classes for inmates. Library of Congress Though the occupation seemed at first like a publicity stunt, the Indians had a vision for the island ...

But boxing's Saudi boss Turki Alalshikh could well be on the verge of trumping them all, with his plans for WBO super-lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez to fight inside Alcatraz prison.

Built over a desolated island on the coast of San Francisco, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary made history as the darkest pit you could hide prisoners from 1934 to 1963. The imposing fortress ...