Located on the east side of Alcatraz Island, the original 1857 sign on the sallyport was concealed by a century-old building that backed up onto it. Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on ...

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.” ...

It was the most secure prison in America—until three men outsmarted the system. Using fake heads, dummies in their beds, and ...

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 ...

Alcatraz Island is celebrating Earth Day by hosting a full day of educational activities. Zoom in: The event will feature ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison, some visitors were dismayed that there was no information about prisons. Temper your ...

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz only 10 times worse built on tropical hellish and deadly islands lost to the rest of the world Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana ...

There are no fences or barricades here either, just warning signs. Keeping curious outsiders off the prison grounds can be a much bigger issue than stopping escaping convicts. Eichhöfer says the ...

Saudi boxing boss Turki Alalshikh has expressed interest in hosting a boxing event inside the former Alcatraz prison, off the coast of San Francisco, in June or July of this year. And McGregor ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...