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.

the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison once considered inescapable. Frank Morris, along with ...

More than 60 years after three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, the U.S. Marshals Service is not giving up on capturing them. The U.S. Marshals on Wednesday released age-progressed ...

Shocking footage has emerged showing more than 50 inmates staging a mass prison break from a notorious Indonesian jail.

He arrived on the island prison at the age of 18 where he immediately began plotting his escape. His plans to flee culminated in the famous two-day Battle of Alcatraz, which left two guards and th ...

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.” ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...

Frank Lee Morris concocted a daring escape plan he shared with Allen West and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. The four Alcatraz inmates constructed an improvised inflatable raft in the prison ...