EDITOR: On April 13, there was a wonderful article about a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a short ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand the famed Alcatraz Island prison, which lies off the coast of San ...

Amy Wamsley tells people to live their dreams. She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12.

President Trump made headlines recently for suggesting that Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay, should be ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...