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

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

Alcatraz, America's most feared prison, officially shut on 21 March 1963, bringing an end to nearly three decades of housing ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – launched one of the ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

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

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, James "Whitey" Bulger, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz" all served time at the ...

With approval from the Fayette County commissioners and the county’s jail board, up to 30 federal inmates will be housed in the county’s lockup. Warden John Lenkey said Wednesday that the agreement ...

The plan then backfired on the people involved, as two Georgia residents were sentenced to join an inmate behind bars in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Jerrell Antonio ...

A state inmate who claims to be a high-ranking member of a “highly known white supremacist group” has been sentenced to federal prison for threatening the Mobile County district attorney with ...