Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin vanished from Alcatraz after months of planning, leaving behind one of America’s ...

For 29 years, from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz served as America’s most notorious federal penitentiary. Built on 22 acres of rock ...

The most renowned prison in the world has a hidden flaw that allowed three inmates to make the greatest prison break. In June 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin and their friend Frank Morris, ...

A dogged coyote made a daring reverse escape in California by swimming through the choppy waters of San Francisco Bay to ...

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a question ...

Fifty years ago, three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history. As one newsreel put it ...

There have been many daring escapes from Alcatraz, the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco. But what about a daring escape to Alcatraz? In a tourist video shot last month, you see a coyote ...

Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers' escape from Alcatraz in 1962 is still considered an open investigation!

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by ...