At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

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

T100 action is once again on the horizon as the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon hosts the second race of the season in San ...

UFC commentator Joe Rogan casts a doubt in his ability to match Nick Diaz's super human feat of swimming in shark infested ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser make "Jim Halpert from The Office" face while Trump is talking about Alcatraz ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...