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 ...

The federal prison had closed six years earlier ... The blacksmith shop on Alcatraz once held vocational classes for inmates. Library of Congress Though the occupation seemed at first like ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next ...

Shocking footage has emerged showing more than 50 inmates staging a mass prison break from a notorious Indonesian jail.

While voluntary enlistment is still strong in Ukraine, it is no longer enough. Kyiv has began allowing prisoners to apply for early release in exchange for military service. While Russia's similar ...

The future of Alcatraz ... escaping onto the prison roof. The men then clambered down to the water before launching a raft from the northeast shore of the island. The three inmates were never ...

The four Alcatraz inmates constructed an improvised inflatable raft in the prison workshops. They also modeled replicas of their heads with papier mâché, that they left on their bed to trick ...