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

To some in this city, turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

The island fortress entered American cultural lore after a 1962 escape by three inmates, notably Frank Morris, which became ...

Detainees at a Texas immigration center fear deportation to El Salvador's CECOT prison. While the Trump administration demurs ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax ...

Crucial CCTV vision showing Audrey Griffin walking a few hundred metres ahead of her alleged killer in the minutes before she ...

Critics of the US criminal justice system have often pointed to the “tough on crime” politics originating during the Nixon ...

An Air Force pilot who shared a bond—and a prison cell—with the late Sen. John McCain is now sharing his story, as the nation marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. It was supposed to be his ...

and I had the good fortune to share my cell with a bunch of really brave and decent men." Calvey’s prison experience and the circumstances that led him there are the subject of his new book ...