President Trump signed an executive order instructing justice officials to review the conditions of prisoners receiving ...

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.” ...

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

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military ... have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank ...

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

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons, a Trump administration choice that ...

The request comes after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to 'facilitate' the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ...

President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to ...