The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ...

Behind bars for robbing a bank, the three prisoners proved that Alcatraz -a federal penitentiary reserved for the "worst of the worst" - was not as "escape proof" as once believed. It is believed ...

There were 14 attempts to escape Alcatraz during the 29 years it served as a federal prison. Most attempts ended with the prisoners either being captured or killed. Frank Lee Morris and brothers ...

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A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

Feelings of low-level betrayal came with my choice to run the turkey trot rather than take the ferry to Alcatraz for a ...

New evidence suggests that at least one convict escaped from Alcatraz and survived National ... break from the fortresslike Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary and brave the frigid waters in ...

But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. More widely known as the ADX or the "Alcatraz of the ...

With The Shawshank Redemption turning 30 this year, the hosts of BBC Radio 4's Screenshot Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode are putting the best prison movies ... or Birdman of Alcatraz, to bleaker ...

He failed to answer a subpoena to appear before a federal grand jury ... he was punished by being relocated to Alcatraz, the formidable prison built on a small island offshore from San Francisco ...

The U.S. military also built a fort and military prison on Alcatraz, which existed from 1850 to 1934. Probably the most notorious use of the island was as Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ...

It's no secret that many of San Francisco's most iconic landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf, are best seen from the water. Because of this, there are a ...