A first generation American from Queens, N.Y., Kameny was a decorated WWII veteran. With a prodigious 148 I.Q., he earned a ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

The School,” about Oakland’s Hintil Ku’u Ca preschool, premieres this month. The film documents the school’s origins in the ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

President Trump is dreaming of reopening Alcatraz as a prison, but making it happen could fare more like a nightmare with a ...

The origin story of the island's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

The president’s Make Alcatraz Great Again pitch just got more fuel from one of his subordinates. Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested Tuesday that alleged international drug traffickers, “if ...

The history of Alcatraz is long: it was a military fort, then military prison, before being converted into a federal prison between 1934 and 1963. During that time, famous inmates like Al Capone, ...

John Martini, an expert on Alcatraz history who served as a park ranger on the island in the 1970s, shortly after it opened to tourism, told the Chronicle that it would be impossible to reopen the ...