In Brazil, an inmates escape attempt went wrong when he got stuck in a prison wall. Firefighters had to drill him out safely ...

Between the time Alcatraz, a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, was commissioned as a federal prison in 1934 and its closure in 1963, there were 14 known attempts at escape. All but one (probably ...

The Cleveland Leader of the 2d has the following: -- A gentleman just from Johnson's Island furnishes us with the following valuable information in regard to a recent attempt to escape from the ...

A mafia boss has broken out of a Sardinian prison using a rudimentary method of escape. Marco Raduano, known as "Pallone", fled from the high-security Badu 'e Carros Prison in Nuoro, to the east ...

Alcatraz prison shut down in 1963, a year after the men's escape. Partly this was due to its deteriorating structure and the expense of running it but the prison's severe regime had also long been ...

President 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 wond… ...

A stunning video shows "extremely dangerous" convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante scale a wall to escape from a Pennsylvania prison yard last week. Cavalcante, 34, ...

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. Silvia was once considered among RI's most dangerous inmates. He once covered himself in hand lotion and ...

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin.

On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate.