One of Alcatraz’s most infamous prisoners left The Rock on this day in 1939

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...
NBC Connecticut

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Florida lawmakers can’t access ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, judge rules

A Florida judge denied a lawsuit allowing lawmakers access to Florida’s immigrant-detention center known as “Alligator ...
Christian Science Monitor

The Alcatraz prison is now a museum. But there’s no escaping its history.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Yahoo

Gavin Newsom says Alcatraz will reopen the ‘same day Trump releases the Epstein files’

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released. A ...
AOL

Pam Bondi, Doug Burgum Visit Alcatraz To Promote Prison's Reopening

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist attraction that President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen as a prison in ...
NBC Washington

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...