Plenty of movies have used Alcatraz Island as a memorable setting, including classics like The Rock, Escape from Alcatraz, ...

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 ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands. In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was ...