Clint Eastwood’s prison break film that’s based on a true story, Escape From Alcatraz, will soon come to a free streamer.

Alcatraz has joined the Active Shooter Prevention Project (ASPP), a U.S.-based initiative that develops strategies to reduce risks in schools.

Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump's second term, at least partly because a new policy ...

Attorneys say detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” still struggle to reach their lawyers, despite state claims that access problems are fixed. On Thursday, two lawyers filed ...

The cost of building an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” might fall to Florida taxpayers, according ...

As the Trump Administration seeks to expand its immigrant detention capacity, local residents and leaders are putting up a fight.

Jan. 21 (UPI) --A coyote caught on camera swimming to San Francisco's Alcatraz Island is believed to be the first of its species to visit the former prison, which is now a tourist attraction. Aidan ...

He should have been trying to make his escape. A coyote doggie-paddled ashore at Alcatraz on Sunday, leaving stunned guests and workers wondering how the unlikely visitor pulled off the daring swim.

“I didn’t believe them to start with,” Moore, who has been working on the island for the past two and a half years, told SFGATE over the phone. But the guest insisted they had the video to prove it.

On Thursday, Republicans in the House failed to override President Donald Trump’s first two vetoes in office: a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking water to rural Colorado, and another ...

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 ...

Juan Carlos Chavez is the immigration reporter, covering immigration, diverse communities and the intersection with politics. He can be reached at jchavez@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of ...