Bill Baker was only 23 when he was handcuffed, shackled, and thrown on the back of a boat headed for Alcatraz, the infamous federal ...

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

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

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

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

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

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

Still, the Bureau of Prisons is taking Trump’s proposal seriously. U.S. Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III ...

President Donald Trump is ordering the reopening of the infamous Alcatraz prison to serve as a "symbol of law and order." ...