In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

There are only two people left in the world who really know what it was like to be a prisoner on Alcatraz, the legendary island in San Francisco Bay. One is Charlie Hopkins, who lives in Florida. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic site struggled to see the logic.

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 ...

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 ...