In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

All eyes will be at the Super Bowl and Levi’s Stadium on Sunday but before the game, all eyes will be on Alcatraz where the pre-game show will be taking place. The Bay Area’s famous former prison has ...

There are a lot of interesting facts about Alcatraz Prison. One is the delicious meals served to inmates. When it was still up and running, its inmates were provided with filling options for breakfast ...

President Donald Trump is seeking $152 million to cover the first year of costs to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as a secure facility. The funds, requested as part of the White House’s budget ...

Donald Trump said he wants to turn Alcatraz Island back into a prison. The island off San Francisco housed famous criminals, including Al Capone, in the mid-20th century. Now a National Historic ...

The film, Concrete, Steel and Paint, told the story of the Philadelphia Mural project in which inmates and victims of crime painted a mural on parachute cloth in the prison the inmates were housed, ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a question ...

"It caught the public's imagination," says Heaney. "We will be dead and gone for years, and people will still be saying, coming off the boat: 'That's Alcatraz.'" iStockphoto Frank Heaney can't escape ...

Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist attractions, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The penitentiary closed in ...