President Donald Trump’s surprise call to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison may have been inspired less by policy briefings than by prime-time television. According to The Hollywood ...

President Donald Trump announced that he intends to resurrect the infamous Alcatraz facility, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, as a modern maximum-security prison. The announcement ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – launched one of the ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

Discover how a 1962 Popular Mechanics article inspired the legendary Alcatraz escape, blending ingenuity and determination in ...

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

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco ’s notorious island prison, has ...

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The Trump administration's latest publicly-fought battles come as he pushes for steep film tariffs and the reopening of one ...