Alcatraz. The name alone conjures images of hardened criminals, daring escapes, and the cold, unrelenting waters of San Francisco Bay. Popular culture has painted “The Rock” as a hellish fortress of ...

As President Trump moves to reopen Alcatraz, the penitentiary's most famous escape resurface. Sixty-four years later, no one ...

In June 1962, three inmates ingeniously escaped Alcatraz by crafting a lifeboat from prison raincoats. The escapees used stolen tools and dummy heads to outsmart guards and navigate to the prison roof ...

The Alcatraz escape remains a mystery more than six decades later. In 1962, three inmates managed to break out of the high-security prison, which was widely considered unbreakable.

San Francisco could be losing an iconic tourist spot. Donald Trump said on social media in May that he'd ordered federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison that held ...

As I stand on Alcatraz for the first time on this gloomy day, looking out from the island prison I’ve looked at thousands of times, two emotions overwhelm all others: enchantment and deep regret. So, ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...