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

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Arizona has cut a deal to sell the shuttered private prison it owns north of Tucson to the Utah-based company that ran it ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

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Alcatraz federal prison was opened in 1934 as a “maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary” to house “the most incorrigible inmates.” The prison was located on Alcatraz Island ...

Eberhart was held at a minimum-security camp adjacent to a medium-security federal prison about 75 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. Eberhart, who represented Indiana House District 57 from ...

was a maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison opened in 1934 to deal with the "most incorrigible inmates in federal prisons," the Bureau of Prisons says. Before that, dating back to the 1850s ...