Prison food may get a deservedly bad rap, but Alcatraz's fresh and filling cafeteria offerings were rarely cause for ...

News, Reviews, Release Date, Trailers, Gameplay and more for Digging a Hole... with a Spoon... Escape from Alcatraz ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...

It is hailed as America's greatest prison break. In June 1962, three inmates at Alcatraz fooled guards with papier-mâché heads, carved tunnels with spoons, stitched together a raft from raincoats and ...

Fifty years ago, three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history. As one newsreel put it ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison even though it has been closed for more than 60 years. Its outsized place in the public ...

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...