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

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

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 ...

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

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

Since its closure in 1963, Alcatraz Prison has become ... escape a hard enough prospect, the prison was retrofitted so that each prisoner was kept to one cell, and one guard was on duty for ...