Alcatraz Island’s history as a prison dates back to the mid-19th century, and it served as a federal penitentiary beginning in 1934. With its high walls, armed guards, and location in the middle of ...

Alcatraz ferry workers strike as SF summer tourism season starts Alcatraz City Cruises workers are striking for better wages as San Francisco's summer tourism season is just getting started ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rising sea levels are threatening iconic Alcatraz Island and now a groundbreaking endeavor is helping scientists develop strategies to protect it, along with tracking the effects ...

A mysterious letter has come to light purportedly from one of three inmates who famously escaped Alcatraz in 1962. Someone claiming to be John Anglin wrote to San Francisco police in 2013 ...

Alcatraz has gone down in history as one the world's most infamous prisons and its legends and inmate escape attempts are explored in Alcatraz: Search for the Truth and Inside Alcatraz: Legends of the ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

Several productions have dramatized the infamous 1962 prisoner escape, including Don Siegel’s 1979 thriller, Escape from Alcatraz. Clint Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, and he shares the screen with ...

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People interested in crime, history and mysteries will appreciate the wealth of exhibits at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum. Sprawled across 25,000 square feet of space, the museum is designed to ...

Set in the early 1960s, this fact-based chronicle details the story of a group of inmates who plot a daring breakout from the maximum-security institution off the coast of San Francisco.