Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too costly to operate — three times more costly than any other federal prison. It's not coming back.

EDITOR: On April 13, there was a wonderful article about a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a short ...

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

Mother’s Day is a day that evokes joy for many, but it carries a painful significance for me. I lost my son Eric to an ...

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