Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Alcatraz Island is most well known for its prison, that housed notorious inmates such as Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. What may surprise you is that Alcatraz has a long and storied history, playing ...

On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz inmate had simply walked out the front door of the county jail — and ...

Darwin Coon is constantly reminded of his time on Alcatraz. The former bank robber can see the notorious island prison from just outside his front door in the city's North Beach district. Coon ...

The convicted killer was an expert on a hobby followed by millions of people, and was the subject of a famous movie.

It’s thanks to an ingenious escape attempt in 1962 by Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers that most people have forgotten ...

"It caught the public's imagination," says Heaney. "We will be dead and gone for years, and people will still be saying, coming off the boat: 'That's Alcatraz.'" iStockphoto Frank Heaney can't escape ...