President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he planned on signing an executive order to create a facility at Guantánamo ...

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that he wants to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for undocumented immigrants amid President ...

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz ...

Here are some of the more notorious penitentiaries that are worth checking out. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (United States) From 1934 to 1963, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz ...

The prison health system struggles to serve Oregon’s prisoners -- challenges extensively documented in court filings. The ...

Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional and accepted sense of the term. Birdman reverses the formula and brings a new breadth and depth to the form. In telling ...

A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after ...

Here, 115 prisoners mostly live in communal houses, along with 69 prison employees, almost all of whom return to the mainland at day's end. Only five guards remain on the island during the night.

In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for ... Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind.