Despite numerous criminal charges, including violence, smuggling, bootlegging, and murder, he could not be punished. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose ...

In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

Alcatraz was closed as a maximum-security prison in 1963 after 29 years of operation, because it was too expensive to continue operating, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. The ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

July 17 (UPI) --Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in San Francisco to inspect the former Alcatraz Island federal prison ahead of its potential reopening. A Fox News ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are visiting Alcatraz Island today to advance a proposal to reopen the former federal prison. The move drew immediate condemnation from ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California on Thursday, just two months after President Trump ordered the reopening of the ...

July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi visited the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay on Thursday, weeks after President Donald Trump said he would order the long-shuttered ...