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

Alcatraz was disbanded in 1963 after it was deemed too expensive to run, however, President Donald Trump has plans to re-open ...

But only three inmates - brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris - successfully escaped before vanishing without a ...

Stroud became famous for his work raising and studying ... In 1959 he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he died on Nov. 21, 1963.

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...