Jen Shah of "Real Housewives," Brittish Williams of "Basketball Wives," the disgraced stars of "Chrisley Knows Best." ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl ...

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 ...

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 ...

History shows us that the island operating as a prison had been too costly. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed more than 62 years ago. The maximum-security, minimum-privilege ...