Alcatraz Island is celebrating Earth Day by hosting a full day of educational activities. Zoom in: The event will feature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.