Eldy Bratt walks down a cell block on Alcatraz with her son Peter Bratt, left, and one of her daughters in San Francisco, March 26, 1970, during the 19-month Native American occupation of the former ...

According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

There is no prison more prolific than Alcatraz, so it should come as no surprise that some of its past inmates have been equally notorious. Alcatraz Penitentiary was the country's premiere maximum ...

Ken Widner and Mike Lynch’s 'Alcatraz: The Last Escape' goes inside the infamous 1962 jailbreak Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in The New ...

The Alcatraz of the Rockies, officially known as the United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum (ADX), is the ...