where it imprisoned Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It continued to serve as a military prison until 1933, when the Justice Department took control and formed the Alcatraz Federal ...

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

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock ... on Thursday to continue negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and improve relations between Russia ...

While Alcatraz’s most famous inmates were convicted felons like Capone, in earlier times the facility also held what might be called prisoners of conscience, including, in World War I ...

Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany ... and they'll do something the prisoners never got a chance to try: use a bathtub full of concrete to catapult the glider ...

But the fact that the Japanese community faced severe persecution before and after World War II is ... “Brazil’s Alcatraz,” due to the similarity with the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island ...

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 ...

America's most infamous maximum security prison Alcatraz, home to the country's most dangerous criminals, is considered to be an impenetrable fortress. A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber ...

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect ... veil on the prison’s most ...