Alcatraz was built to be the prison nobody could escape, surrounded by freezing water, strong currents, and one of the ...

President Donald Trump’s latest fantastic notion is to repurpose Alcatraz Island, one of the National Park Service’s most popular historical sites, as the remote, isolated California prison it used to ...

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed on March 21, 1963, after 29 years of operation. It remains one of the most famous prisons in the world and has become one of the most popular National ...

The film, Concrete, Steel and Paint, told the story of the Philadelphia Mural project in which inmates and victims of crime painted a mural on parachute cloth in the prison the inmates were housed, ...

Rising from San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island feels both stark and cinematic. Once home to America’s most notorious federal prison, “The Rock” is now a windswept national park full of stories of ...

There have been many daring escapes from Alcatraz, the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco. But what about a daring escape to Alcatraz? In a tourist video shot last month, you see a coyote ...