“There was that spark at Alcatraz and we took off,” he recalled in 2002. Today, even at the old prison itself, which is run by the National Park Service, fleece- and sneaker-clad tourists who ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the ... The last inmate to leave the 29-year-old island prison was Frank C. Weatherman, age 29, a gun smuggler who was transferred ...

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 ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...

For the Alcatraz exhibition ... traveling from the Atlanta federal penitentiary, carried 35-year-old “Scarface” Al Capone—former king of the Chicago underworld, then serving an 11-year ...

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary ... on the east side of Alcatraz Island, the original 1857 sign on the sallyport was concealed by a century-old building that ...