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

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

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

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as ... and the notion of the forbidding island prison had a long and easily summoned history in the public imagination. We are having trouble retrieving ...

As calls to reopen Alcatraz make headlines, Mexico's prison island tells a different story – of sea turtles, green parrots ...

As if there was a need for more proof that President Donald Trump views his power as a way to indulge in grand gestures on ...

US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was ...

Alcatraz was shuttered for good the following ... “You would be losing a lot of history there.” CNN’s FJ Feng and Alex Matthews contributed to this report.

Alcatraz was shuttered for good the following ... “You would be losing a lot of history there.” ...

but was transferred to Alcatraz in 1934 after allegations that Capone was receiving cushy treatment by manipulating the prison system, according to History.com. Capone was released from Alcatraz ...