The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Alcatraz as a prison? What about a coliseum that features Jan. 6 patriots? Hearst Castle as the Western White House? And ...

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

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist ...

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

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

The penitentiary closed in the 1960s and has become one of San Francisco’s top tourist destinations.

Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for ...

Rachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's push toward autocracy, and notes that unlike ...

where she has called his views on public broadcasters’ coverage and funding sources “dangerous and unprecedented,” and objected to Carr’s moves to target diversity policies at media companies ...