The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison raises more questions than answers for a beloved San ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

When Alcatraz closed in 1963, it was in such bad shape that the federal government ruled it would be more cost effective to ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...