For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz ...

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 ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison in his mind. Sitting at a long wooden table within ...