During its time as a prison and for decades after, Alcatraz has been featured in pop culture many times, including in movies such as Birdman of Alcatraz, Point Blank, The Rock and X-Men ...

Alcatraz held some of the nation's worst criminals for around 30 years. Famous inmates include Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. It became a symbol in pop culture. "There have been films ...

Alcatraz’s time as an operating prison was relatively brief, but the stories that sprang from its seemingly endless lines of cold cells and fog-drenched cliffs have echoed through pop culture ...

Some stories became lore that contributed towards the pop culture zeitgeist, like Clint Eastwood's 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that during the ...

DON EBERLE, FBI agent in charge of 1962 Alcatraz escape investigation THERE ARE ACTUALLY two issues of Popular Mechanics in the Alcatraz file at the Park Archives and Records Center in San ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian ... Years after its closure in 1963, the prison became a pop culture icon with a lore spun from notorious tales of gangster inmates like ...

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ ... in movies and pop culture as “The Rock.” ...

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif ... which had capacity for 336 men, earned a place in popular culture as an island of remote despair. “Everybody wants to be an individual,” said former inmate ...

That distinction is being challenged after more than 50 years of functioning as the popular ... the Alcatraz federal prison has been an infamous part of modern American culture due to some of ...