In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

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 ...

Donald Trump said he wants to turn Alcatraz Island back into a prison. The island off San Francisco housed famous criminals, including Al Capone, in the mid-20th century. Now a National Historic ...

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 ...

Alcatraz has a reputation as being one of the worst prisons to have ever existed! Find out what a prisoner's life was like once they were locked up on "The Rock". After watching it's not hard to see ...

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a question ...