Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

Here's a look at some of the most famous criminals to get locked up in the island-based prison off the coast of San Francisco. Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison, some visitors were dismayed that there was no information about prisons. Temper your ...

McNeill Island, Wash.; Lewisburg, Pa.; or Atlanta, Ga. A few moments after the 60-foot diesel boat left Alcatraz, prison Officer Gordon Gronzo formally closed the 100-foot Tower No. 1 on the east ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

It was while serving as a prison that Alcatraz became a symbol of America’s dark side, though most of the stories about the island are more fiction than fact. How then did Alcatraz become an ...

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

(CNN) — The future of Alcatraz lies ... escaping onto the prison roof. The men then clambered down to the water before launching a raft from the northeast shore of the island.

The future of Alcatraz ... Island, the original 1857 sign on the sallyport was concealed by a century-old building that backed up onto it. Kelsey’s discoveries have also lifted the veil on the ...