Here's a look at some of the most famous criminals to get locked up in the island-based prison off the coast of San Francisco. Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the ...

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison once considered inescapable. Frank ...

They were in prison for committing bank robberies. “The ongoing U.S. Marshals investigation of the 1962 escape from Alcatraz federal prison serves as a warning to fugitives,” the agency said in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters ... life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been. “The possible escape from Alcatraz by three men in ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military ... have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank ...

The cost of housing a prisoner on Alcatraz, where all supplies, including potable water, arrived by boat, was more than three times higher than at other federal prisons. In 1963, Attorney General ...

On March 21, 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. • In 1556, Thomas Cranmer ...

Built over a desolated island on the coast of San Francisco, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary made ... an improvised inflatable raft in the prison workshops. They also modeled replicas of their ...