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

"There have been films about it, Escape from Alcatraz, there is just a lot of lore to it," said Peter Hartlaub, culture ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, who won with a promise to confront U.S. President Donald Trump's aggression, has ...

Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show desk tonight to analyze Trump’s latest brain drippings, which consisted of an upcoming ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz, a popular U.S. tourist destination ... From news to politics, travel to sport, ...

One amusing instance of Francis’ influence on popular culture was when "Game of Thrones" cast Pope Francis lookalike Jonathan Pryce (who starred as the pontiff in "The Two Popes") in the role of ...

For what it’s worth, Alalshikh has said he wants to do Alcatraz Island next, the maximum-security prison operational between 1934 and 1963 (now a museum), which counted American gangster Al ...