Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose ...
In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...
One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...
On May 28, 1875, a Modoc man from Southern Oregon died at Alcatraz. He was one of the first Native Americans sentenced to the island prison. Long before visitors toured Alcatraz or famous inmates like ...
Originally used as a military prison in the 19th century, in 1933 the American government decided Alcatraz would keep the county’s most dangerous criminals behind bars. Yes, those that no ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alcatraz is undergoing a big change. The former prison which was home to Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone is now hosting what many say is the most anticipated contemporary art ...
More than seven decades after the United States government shut down Alcatraz, the infamous island prison off the coast of San Francisco, the Trump administration built a new symbol of confinement: A ...