The blacksmith shop on Alcatraz once held vocational classes for inmates. Library of Congress Though the occupation seemed at first like a publicity stunt, the Indians had a vision for the island ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

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 ...

There is no prison more prolific than Alcatraz, so it should come as no surprise that some of its past inmates have been equally notorious. Alcatraz Penitentiary was the country's premiere maximum ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) --Fifty years ago they were seeking ways to escape, but Saturday some former inmates of Alcatraz, older and possibly wiser, traveled back for a reunion on the ...

Based on this peculiar chapter of U.S. prisoner history, writer Christopher Cantwell and artist Tyler Crook created Out of Alcatraz #1, a fictional account of what happened to these inmates.

In 1933, the military transferred Alcatraz to the Department of Justice, and a year later, the first armored rail cars arrived by barge carrying high-profile inmates to what federal authorities ...

On arrival, the team stayed on the island for three weeks — sleeping in cells in the notorious D-block where, historically, some of Alcatraz’s most dangerous inmates have been held.