In an interview with the BBC this week, Hopkins described life at Alcatraz, where he made friends with gangsters and once ...

The last known living inmate to serve time in the infamous Alcatraz prison reveals what haunted him most about being locked up on the island as President Trump flirts with the idea of reopening.

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

Falling asleep at night in his cell on the remote island ... informed him that he is likely the last surviving former Alcatraz inmate. Another former inmate, William Baker, appeared to be alive ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

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

President Trump recently announced his intention to reopen the island of Alcatraz as a revamped, modern prison under the ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over the last few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, ...