including 3 children Aerial view of Alcatraz Island in January 1932. The island was used as a maximum security federal prison from 1934 to 1963. (FBI) The U.S. Marshals Service has released ...

Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from ...

The stream of people who pass by the entrance to the Alcatraz Island ferry landing on San Francisco’s northern waterfront are ...

It was while serving as a prison that Alcatraz became a symbol of America’s dark side, though most of the stories about the island are more fiction than fact. How then did Alcatraz become an ...

A view of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Before it was a federal prison, the island was home to a 19th-century fort, remains of which are still found under newer buildings. (Hans Blossey ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

Sprawled across 25,000 square feet of space, the museum is designed to look like a a blend of Alcatraz Island prison and the Tennessee state prison. It includes 100-plus interactive exhibits ...