The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in ...

Federal agents are rounding up criminal defendants and deporting them before trial. Local prosecutors say the disruptions ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

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

Republican senators are drawing a bright line against President Trump’s exploration of sending “homegrown” criminals who are ...

Alcatraz is where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known ...

President Donald Trump doubled down this week on his proposal to send American citizens to foreign prisons ... “How can I return him to the United States? Am I going to smuggle him?

Americans barely remember the Mexican-American War, but in Mexico memories of the war and other military quarrels with the United States remain deeply felt. Mexico lost half its territory ...

POLLOCK, LA: On Thursday, April 24, 2025, at approximately 11:30 a.m., employees responded to multiple incarcerated individuals fighting at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Pollock in Pollock ...