The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands. In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was ...

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison, some visitors were dismayed that there was no information about prisons. Temper your ...