One of Alcatraz's most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...

The prison, which has operated as a historic site for several decades, remains in a deteriorated state President Donald Trump's administration is taking action to reopen Alcatraz. After Attorney ...

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...

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 ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz on July 17, the infamous federal prison island in the San Francisco Bay that President Donald Trump has said he wants to reopen to house the country's "most ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

President Donald Trump's proposal to convert Alcatraz Island back into a high-security penitentiary would threaten millions of dollars in tourism revenue and hundreds of local jobs. Investigative ...

Alcatraz was built for the "worst of the worst," but it remains among the best of the best as a tourist destination. The former prison, which closed in 1963, was named the tenth-best attraction in the ...