Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Brothers John and Clarence Anglin, two of 14 siblings, began their criminal careers with petty burglaries and car thefts before escalating to a string of bank robberies across the South. Like Morris, ...

Did the impossible happen? For decades, the Alcatraz escape has baffled investigators. Now, a cryptic letter sent to the FBI fifty years later could hold the key to unlocking this infamous prison ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...

One of Clint Eastwood's more underrated thrillers has finally arrived on Paramount+.

A view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary from the water in 1938. Courtesy National Park Service. On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true ...

As President Donald Trump seeks to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the men who pulled off the 1962 escape that made the island legendary vanished, and no one has ever learned what became of them ...

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a question ...