Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

At Alcatraz, Hopkins had some infamous neighbours. The facility housed many violent criminals over its 30 years - Al Capone; ...

"It's not like he came out and was like, 'Hey, I'm Pope Leo XIV, he/him,'" Colin Jost jokes of the Chicago native ...

Reopening it is nostalgia for an America where power ran roughshod over true justice, and police were an authority not to be ...

As if there was a need for more proof that President Donald Trump views his power as a way to indulge in grand gestures on ...

This legislation will have a significant effect on California, reversing Proposition 12. Proposition 12, passed by a majority ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...