A request emerged from Reynhard Sinaga's parents to the Indonesian government for their son to be returned to their homeland.

The new comic Out of Alcatraz honors one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, including the stylization of the cover art and font.

It was while serving as a prison that Alcatraz became a symbol of America’s dark side, though most of the stories about the island are more fiction than fact. How then did Alcatraz become an ...

Alcatraz - known as The Rock - is no longer a working jail, but was a high-security penitentiary from 1934 to 1963. Notorious inmates of the island prison in San Francisco bay included gang boss ...

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (United States ... Prior to its purpose as a prison, Robben Island also functioned as a military base for 29 years. Visitors can learn about the site’s extensive ...

But they’re the only plants on the island that have passed ... Park Service ranger stationed at Alcatraz. Goodman, whose ...

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood ...

Sprawled across 25,000 square feet of space, the museum is designed to look like a a blend of Alcatraz Island prison and the Tennessee state prison. It includes 100-plus interactive exhibits ...

Here, 115 prisoners mostly live in communal houses, along with 69 prison employees, almost all of whom return to the mainland at day's end. Only five guards remain on the island during the night.

Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional and accepted sense of the term. Birdman reverses the formula and brings a new breadth and depth to the form. In telling ...