I remember this green, and I hate it. I’m standing in a preserved cell on Alcatraz Island, staring at the green paint lining ...

People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, March 15, 2021, as the historic island prison was reopened to visitors after being closed since Dec. 2020, because of the ...

One of three cell tiers of individual cells at the main block of the Alcatraz Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 15, 1956. AP What made Alcatraz unique was ...

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being ...

Long before it became the famous prison island, it was Fort Alcatraz, ... So when the federal penitentiary there opened its cell doors in 1934, there wasn't much room to house inmates.

If you break the prison rules, you go to Alcatraz.” There are large exhibits on mass incarceration. Visitors can enter a windowless cell and close the door for a brief taste of solitary confinement.

Lock him up in a solid gold cell. President Donald J. Trump's latest brainstorm du jour is to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island where he plans to incarcerate America's most dangerous ...

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago.

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin.

Around 1910, Alcatraz was being used to house military prisoners, who built the island's iconic three-story cell house that still stands on the island today.. Later, when the U.S. government was ...