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 ...

Current FBI wanted posters state the brothers are still “wanted for the June 11, 1962, escape from the federal penitentiary ...

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 ...

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 ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...

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 ...

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 ...