There are three prominent islands that jut out in San Francisco Bay just as you enter the Golden Gate. The one 1 ½ mile north ...

Three prisoners successfully escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and an expert has revealed the design flaw that made it possible.

President Trump may want to turn Alcatraz into a prison, but San Francisco kids have their own ideas — less jail time and a ...

An expert spent more than 30 years researching Alcatraz and uncovered a flaw that helped pave the way for three men to escape ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

Amid upheaval across the U.S. in 2025, Associated Press photographers captured images of heartache and hope, celebration and ...

About 5,500 people were ferried from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island before dawn Thursday for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering and commemorates the 1969–71 occupation of ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. More than a decade ago, I spent a week working in Gatineau, a city on the southern edge ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down operations at the 87-year-old Terminal Island federal prison after inspectors found that crumbling concrete in underground tunnels posed a serious safety ...

Some of the most dangerous people in the world lived in the Alcatraz prison. I decided to go to the island and learn all about it. Alone with a killer in the Montana wilderness ...

On Thanksgiving morning each year, Native Americans hold a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz island, in the San Francisco Bay. It honors Indigenous resistance over the years and the historic 1969 Native ...