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

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

is offering public tours. But the prison outside Chicago is not the Alcatraz of the Midwest. It hasn’t been spruced up with exhibits and an audio tour. There is no heat or jail-cell restoration.

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate ...

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 ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison ... and until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets cost $28.95 for adults (ages ...

For the Alcatraz exhibition ... His earliest job out of college, nearly four decades ago, was giving tours of the former prison site just after it initially opened to the public.

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 ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...

Saudi boxing boss Turki Alalshikh has expressed interest in hosting a boxing event inside the former Alcatraz prison, off the coast of San Francisco, in June or July of this year. And McGregor ...