Bill Baker was only 23 when he was handcuffed, shackled, and thrown on the back of a boat headed for Alcatraz, the infamous ...

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...

Alcatraz was not the most efficient or most punitive maximum-security prison. Rather, it served more as a “public relations ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

Sceptics dismissed the idea, noting that he could have been inspired by what he saw on TV. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in ... shore and 22 acres in size, according to the Golden ...