Alcatraz Island is celebrating Earth Day by hosting a full day of educational activities. Zoom in: The event will feature ...

It was the most secure prison in America—until three men outsmarted the system. Using fake heads, dummies in their beds, and ...

Located on the east side of Alcatraz Island, the original 1857 sign on the sallyport was concealed by a century-old building ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison in his mind. Sitting at a long wooden table within ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

Alcatraz is managed by the National Park Service ... Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

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 ...