Riley Gaines defended her decision to swim from Alcatraz to shore at 31 weeks pregnant, addressing backlash on her podcast ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a ...

( NewsNation) — Former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz says reviving and reopening Alcatraz, ...

“We didn’t have cable news, but you had all the media very fascinated with this case.” Then, the first bit of evidence the guys might have survived appeared. But it did not wash up on shore. It ...

In 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western U.S. Military Prison, ... The occupation attracted national media coverage and support from various groups, ...

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist the deteriorating facility should be reopened.

In the past six months, 11 people have died in facilities operated by the federal agency, with five of those deaths occurring ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats. On June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...