Despite an extensive manhunt, the three were never found, leaving behind America’s most enduring prison mystery. After 29 ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

We don’t need a showy new name-brand prison to demonstrate to offenders that we mean business — but we do need more jail ...

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

President Donald Trump proposes rebuilding and reopening Alcatraz prison, a former maximum-security facility off the coast of San Francisco.

The most infamous inmate of Alcatraz was Al Capone, the Chicago mob boss who was nicknamed Scarface over the scars on his ...

Donald Trump has ordered the reopening and expansion of Alcatraz prison, closed in 1963 due to high costs and infrastructure ...