The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin's oldest maximum security prison last year has ...

Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was as much a psychological prison as it was a ...

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

The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board writes that Trump “should ditch his Alcatraz fantasy and build a new prison at an existing ...

Maier was one of six people who died at Waupun, a long-troubled maximum-security ... s cell during breakfast or for lunch, according to the complaint. Russell did not follow the prison's hunger ...