Alcatraz Penitentiary was originally built as a U.S. Army Stockade from 1910-1912. The Justice Department acquired the U.S.

There are no beds, no chairs, no blankets — nothing. While Alcatraz held more than 200 killers, robbers and other excessively ...

US President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress ...

Meanwhile, Daniel Troya, Ricardo Sanchez and 19 other federal inmates are fighting a transfer from Indiana to a 'supermax' ...

The American Civil Liberties Union sought a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from moving the prisoners ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., won’t stop the U.S. government from moving 21 federal prisoners from Terre Haute to a ...

There are plenty of hideouts in the rugged terrain of the Ozark Mountains where searchers are hunting for an ex-lawman known ...

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...

These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests ...

Cost is a central issue. When the federal government shut down Alcatraz in 1963, it cited high operating expenses—three times more than a typical prison—as a primary reason. "I was like ...