The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Law enforcement officers play a crucial role in our society, and as such, they are honored every May during National Police Week. Alcatraz East Crime Museum is ...

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Since its closure in 1963, Alcatraz Prison has become the stuff ... didn’t make escape a hard enough prospect, the prison was retrofitted so that each prisoner was kept to one cell, and one guard was ...

Updates and the latest news as Trump announces Washington will host the NFL draft and signs executive orders. He joined NBC's ...

President Donald Trump announced a plan to renovate and reopen Alcatraz as a prison for "the most dangerous criminals" in the ...

nicknamed the “Birdman of Alcatraz” for his later interest in ornithology –– the study of birds. Originally imprisoned for manslaughter in 1909, Stroud later killed a prison guard and was sentenced to ...

Before the first leg of the Vancouver Whitecaps' CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, supporters stretched banners across one end of BC Place. "You allowed us to ...