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