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 ...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is filled with fictional killers like Norman Bates, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill, but the Netflix original also features real murderers from American history, like Richard ...

Mugshot of Robert Stroud, also known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz." Stroud raised and sold birds while a prisoner at Leavenworth Penitentiary, but was not allowed to while incarcerated at Alcatraz.

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 ...