Many former prisons around the world have been turned into museums that anyone can visit today. There’s so much to learn from ...

The group, all Minnesotans, used violence and threats to ensure payments and conceal crimes, according to federal prosecutors ...

There were 14 attempts to escape Alcatraz during the 29 years it served as a federal prison. Most attempts ended with the prisoners either being captured or killed. Frank Lee Morris and brothers ...

As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters ... life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been. “The possible escape from Alcatraz by three men in ...

Getty Images A view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the 1930s when it was America's premier maximum-security prison The former prison is now a popular San Francisco tourist site, with more ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

A Native girl, one of 78 who invaded Alcatraz Island for the second time within two weeks of the occupation, paints a sign reading “Indian American Land” on the wall of a building at the former ...