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 ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Donald Trump is planning an 'enlarged and rebuilt' Alcatraz prison. But Indigenous activists fear for their ceremonies.

Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist ...

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 ...

A view of Alcatraz prison complex located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost ...

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released. A ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist attraction that President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen as a prison in ...