Two men who say they were repeatedly abused while living at a group home on Cypress Island decades ago are now suing the ...

These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests ...

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful ...

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

The last-known living inmate to serve time in Alcatraz has revealed what haunted him most about being locked up on the notorious island prison that President Trump plans to reopen. Charlie Hopkins ...

A National Park Service staff walks down the stairs as a colony of Brandt's cormorants hang out on the structure’s roof recreation yard at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal prison facility. The former fortress in San Francisco Bay, which operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 ...

awoke to news that President Donald Trump had said he wanted to turn Alcatraz Island back into a prison, she said she felt fear. Many might see Trump’s idea as far-fetched, given Alcatraz’s ...

An Alcatraz historian has warned the infamous prison, which dates back to the mid-19th century, would require major work which would not come cheap.

Blackwell, the warden, even ordered a full search of Alcatraz on the off chance the men never actually left. A hundred soldiers and 35 military police combed Angel Island, the spot just north of ...