Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

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 ...

Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor has recently revealed that he was offered a boxing match at the infamous Alcatraz prison. The Irish superstar, ...

McGregor visited the White House on St Patrick's Day, where he used a meeting with Donald Trump to criticise Ireland's politicians and detailed at Thursday's BKFC event that he has the US President's ...

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.” ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

The four Alcatraz inmates constructed an improvised inflatable raft in the prison workshops. They also modeled replicas of their heads with papier mâché, that they left on their bed to trick ...

Alcatraz is managed by the National Park Service ... Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...