Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Here's a look at some of the most famous criminals to get locked up in the island-based prison off the coast of San Francisco. Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the ...

Today marks 62 years since the last escapees made their way off Alcatraz Island, creating one of the nation’s biggest ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

We'll also take a behind the scenes look at Alcatraz a historic prison. All that and an orangutan that loves to read on today's episode of CNN 10.

Two more dead gray whales have turned up in San Francisco Bay, just days after one was found floating offshore of Alcatraz Island.

McGregor visited the White House on St Patrick's Day, where he used a meeting with Donald Trump to criticise Ireland's politicians and detailed at Thursday's BKFC event that he has the US President's ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison, some visitors were dismayed that there was no information about prisons. Temper your ...