In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

Alcatraz was closed as a maximum-security prison in 1963 after 29 years of operation, because it was too expensive to continue operating, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. The ...

The penitentiary officially closed on March 21, 1963 after being in operation for nearly three decades.

NBC announced on Feb. 2 that portions of the Super Bowl 60 pregame show will be live from Alcatraz. Here's what to know.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now that Alcatraz might be reopened as a prison by the federal government, "Banfield" looks back at the historic facility that ...

JAILHOUSE ROCK: Alcatraz, aka The Rock, sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff By Melanie Stetson Freeman, Staff photographer; Troy Aidan Sambajon, Staff writer San ...