It's difficult to think of Alcatraz and not hear Sean Connery's accented voice proclaiming, "Welcome to the Rock!," but there ...

On May 29, 1985, what should have been an exciting European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus at Belgium’s Heysel ...

Inside one of Australia’s maximum-security prisons, inmates and prison officers have created an indoor farm, growing herbs ...

President Donald Trump says he wants Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison. Here's what to know about ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...

History shows us that the island operating as a prison had been too costly. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed more than 62 years ago. The maximum-security, minimum-privilege ...

Alcatraz was a maximum-security prison situated on a secluded San Francisco island in the Pacific Ocean. It had a reputation as the nation’s toughest and most feared federal penitentiary.

"This small island was once a fort, a military prison, and a maximum security federal penitentiary. In 1969, the Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz for 19 months in the name of freedom and ...

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 ...