An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

Trump said he was directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security to reopen, enlarge and rebuild the former federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island ...

Alcatraz Island, which lies 1.25 miles ... was too expensive to continue operating", according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The buildings were deteriorating and the island's isolation ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

William Baker, 91, is believed to be one of the last living inmates of Alcatraz. He has harrowing tales to tell, including about the time he tried to escape.