An expert spent more than 30 years researching Alcatraz and uncovered a flaw that helped pave the way for three men to escape ...

President Trump may want to turn Alcatraz into a prison, but San Francisco kids have their own ideas — less jail time and a ...

The Alcatraz East Crime Museum has debuted a temporary exhibit focused on retail theft that will be on display through March.

Three prisoners successfully escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and an expert has revealed the design flaw that made it possible.

About 5,500 people were ferried from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island before dawn Thursday for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering and commemorates the 1969–71 occupation of ...

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a lockup adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a California lockup that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens ...

Amid upheaval across the U.S. in 2025, Associated Press photographers captured images of heartache and hope, celebration and ...