On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz ...
Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
Everglades detention facility "Planned in secret, built in secret, and has been operated in secret." Now, a suit challenging ...
The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...