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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November 1969 a small group of Native American students and urban Indians began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Eventually joined by thousands of Native Americans they ...

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz only 10 times worse built on tropical hellish and deadly islands lost to the rest of the world Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana ...

More info Conor McGregor has claimed he was offered the opportunity to fight on Alcatraz Island this summer ... event inside the former Alcatraz prison, off the coast of San Francisco, in June ...