Alcatraz is where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known ...

Reopening Alcatraz — which closed in 1963 and has operated as a museum since — “should be on the table,” Homan told reporters ...

He went on to direct the Bureau of Prisons to “reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt” version of Alcatraz with the help ...

Joel Coleman of Buffalo is headed to prison for shooting and killing Nicholas Petroski on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo in ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as ...

A correctional officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, ...

The family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio jail says the deputies who piled on him stood by for several minutes without trying to save his life after he became unresponsive.

A Montgomery County jury handed down a lengthy prison sentence to a man who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl on her 13th birthday.

Watch live as celebrities arrive at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for this year's Met Gala, which has a "Superfine" theme -- the first to focus exclusively on Black designers.

As the Trump administration tests the limits of presidential power, here's a look at what the U.S. Constitution says.

President Donald Trump says he wants Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison. Here's what to know about ...

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has ...