Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit that supports the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust, confirmed that Alcatraz and several other sites within the Golden Gate National ...
Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist attractions, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The penitentiary closed in ...
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit that supports the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust, confirmed that Alcatraz and several other sites within the Golden Gate National ...
Tours of Alcatraz Island resumed Friday morning after being abruptly closed down the day before due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. By midmorning on Oct. 3, long lines of visitors from the ...
The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...