He was incarcerated at Alcatraz from August 1934 through January 1939, according to The Mob Museum. Capone's time at Alcatraz ... released from prison in November 1939. A portrait of Al Capone ...

The history of Alcatraz is long: it was a military fort, then military prison, before being converted into a federal prison between 1934 and 1963. During that time, famous inmates ... the island plus ...

Falling asleep at night in his ... busy part of the time with his job cleaning Alcatraz, sweeping the floors and buffing them "until they shined", he said. He was sent to prison in 1952 in ...

Trump told reporters on Sunday night while returning ... about prisoners at Alcatraz, tells TIME that there’s little practical use to try to reopen Alcatraz as a prison, but Trump may be more ...

For all of its infamy, Alcatraz averaged a prison population of about 260 to 275 prisoners at any given time – less than ... investigators found. On the night of their escape, they used their ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that during the time Alcatraz, or "The Rock ... human hair that apparently fooled the night guards. A prison lockdown and search immediately involved ...

Alcatraz Prison in the San Francisco Bay, viewed by helicopter on Monday. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for ...

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

For all of its infamy, Alcatraz averaged a prison population of about 260 to 275 prisoners at any given time – less than ... investigators found. On the night of their escape, they used their ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard ... investments at a time when the Bureau of Prisons ...

Mr. Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night ... determined at the time that it cost three times more per prisoner to operate Alcatraz than any other federal prison, and that would ...