St. Louis has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that inmates at a former medium-security ...

Women prisoners were recorded by guards' body cameras while they underwent strip searches, according to a lawsuit filed on ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, James "Whitey" Bulger, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz" all served time at the high-security prison.

Paula Gasparini-Santos brings 'Beyond Good and Evil,' an artistic collaboration with the artistic community at Madison ...