The miniseries’ debut opens with Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin, two of the prisoners who escaped Alcatraz Federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling ... deteriorating buildings which contributed to recent escape attempts. The last inmate to leave the 29-year ...

When it comes to great prison break movies, there are few more iconic than Papillon, the 1973 classic that starred Dustin ...

When most people think of a prison break, the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz Island is likely the first that comes to mind. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

John Anglin, along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris, was one of three inmates who escaped Alcatraz grounds in 1962. The three convicts built papier-mache dummy heads and placed them in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Canadian inmates who escaped from prison by grabbing ... The episode was immortalised in the film Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood. In 2006, a convict, Ralph Phillips, tore ...

Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up the ...

When Ai began researching Alcatraz, what struck him most were the narratives of attempted escape. For inmates, San Francisco was tantalizingly close; on a calm, clear evening they could hear the ...