Robert Stroud, known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, started studying birds while in prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

The most infamous inmate of Alcatraz was Al Capone, the Chicago mob boss who was nicknamed Scarface over the scars on his ...

The Trump administration’s promised deportations have private prison operator CoreCivic moving to use the inactive Kansas ...

Yet the fact that the service is currently streaming the three best-known movies about the old San Franscisco island prison ...

It's difficult to think of Alcatraz and not hear Sean Connery's accented voice proclaiming, "Welcome to the Rock!," but there ...

Donald Trump has ordered the reopening and expansion of Alcatraz prison, closed in 1963 due to high costs and infrastructure ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Originally imprisoned for manslaughter in 1909, Stroud later killed a prison guard and was sentenced to life in solitary confinement at Leavenworth ... his studies in his cell, prison authorities ...

and inspiring other prisoners to do the same – but this all happens at Leavenworth Prison, and when he is transferred to Alcatraz, he’s not allowed to continue his work (despite having ...