As Donald Trump ponders replacing its 1.2m annual tourists with the US’s most hardened criminals, here’s what it’s like to ...

At Alcatraz, Hopkins had some infamous neighbours. The facility housed many violent criminals over its 30 years - Al Capone; ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, locked up for theft and sent to ‘The Rock’ ...

President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful place to grow ...

President Donald Trump has said he’d like to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous island lockup in the middle of San Francisco Bay, turning it into a maximum-security fortress.

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Over 60 years since the barred doors of the infamous island penitentiary shut for good, President Donald Trump has announced plans to reopen an 'enlarged and rebuilt' Alcatraz. Trump took to Truth ...

Bill Baker was only 23 when he was handcuffed, shackled, and thrown on the back of a boat headed for Alcatraz, the infamous ...

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

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours ...

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

US President Donald Trump has said he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal ...