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

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz ... maximum security prison because it would cost $5 million to repair the deteriorating buildings which contributed to recent escape attempts.

Aerial view of Alcatraz Island in January 1932 ... escape from Alcatraz more than 60 years ago. The 1962 escape is probably the most famous prison break in American history, and the three men ...

John Anglin, along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris, was one of three inmates who escaped Alcatraz grounds in 1962 ... prison at the age of 18 where he immediately began plotting his escape.

They were in prison for committing bank robberies. “The ongoing U.S. Marshals investigation of the 1962 escape from Alcatraz federal prison serves as a warning to fugitives,” the agency said in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Again, Alcatraz was the only prison in the system that had the ... John and Clarence Anglin made the most famous escape attempt in 1962. Their elaborate plot is immortalised by the movie ...