According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million in tourism revenue annually.

A first generation American from Queens, N.Y., Kameny was a decorated WWII veteran. With a prodigious 148 I.Q., he earned a ...

Trump has voiced plans to reopen and enlarge the notorious prison, Alcatraz. Will it actually happen? Here's what to know.

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

Alcatraz was shuttered for good in 1963 ... “You would be losing a lot of history there.” Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains ... “You would be losing a lot of history there.” CNN’s FJ Feng and Alex Matthews contributed ...

The School,” about Oakland’s Hintil Ku’u Ca preschool, premieres this month. The film documents the school’s origins in the Red Power Movement and community efforts to keep it open.

The supposedly very important mission of housing prisoners on Alcatraz is not a realistic suggestion. The National Historic Landmark run by the National Park Service there is a major tourist ...