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 ...
Alcatraz Island, simply known as Alcatraz, was once America’s most secure federal prison. The now-abandoned federal prison attracts about 1.6 million visitors every year for tours, bringing in an ...
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 ...
Now that Alcatraz might be reopened as a prison by the federal government, "Banfield" looks back at the historic facility that housed notorious figures, including George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Al ...
Prisoner No. 85 spent four years at the island penitentiary ...
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 ...