Getty Images A view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the 1930s when it was America's premier maximum-security prison The former prison is now a popular San Francisco tourist site, with more ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz.” These words, prominently ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...