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 ...
On March 21, 1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the world-famous maximum-security prison located on a cold island in the San Francisco Bay, officially closed its doors. As the last 27 inmates were ...
Could one of America's most infamous prison breaks finally have a definitive answer? Five decades after three inmates ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now that Alcatraz might be reopened as a prison by the federal government, "Banfield" looks back at the historic facility that ...
Did the impossible happen? For decades, the Alcatraz escape has baffled investigators. Now, a cryptic letter sent to the FBI ...
On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...
A view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary from the water in 1938. Courtesy National Park Service. On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true ...
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 ...