Alcatraz has enchanted tourists, conspiracy theorists and paranormal investigators with its exciting and mysterious history.

Many former prisons around the world have been turned into museums that anyone can visit today. There’s so much to learn from ...

A mysterious letter has come to light purportedly from one of three inmates ... of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the 1930s when it was America's premier maximum-security prison The former ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz ...

Fort Alcatraz was used at the official military prison of the West Coast. The first inmates from the federal prison system began arriving in the 1930s, and the last were moved out in 1963.

More widely known as the ADX or the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," it's the highest-security prison in the entire country. There, every inmate spends roughly 23 hours a day in solitary confinement ...

Some were sent there because they attacked guards or inmates at other facilities, Levine, the former federal inmate, told Reuters. According to the 2014 Amnesty report, ADX Florence has general ...