including the classic film Escape from Alcatraz, the new series After Alcatraz focuses on who these men might have been and ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

An insight into Frank Lee Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin's 1962 attempt to escape from Alcatraz, reputedly the world's most secure prison at the time. The authorities always ...

Perched atop a rocky island surrounded by the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz had mother nature on its side in establishing a reputation as the prison nobody could escape from.

Plus, the fact that the solid walls patrolled by armed guards were surrounded by the sea made Alcatraz a place no one could escape from. The penitentiary reputation was put to test in 1962 ...

Despite multiple theories and claims over the years, their whereabouts post-escape remain unknown. As soon as he was transferred to Alcatraz in 1960, Frank Lee Morris began planning his escape ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...