SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay today and headed for other institutions. The government is abandoning the maximum ...

Shocking footage has emerged showing more than 50 inmates staging a mass prison break from a notorious Indonesian jail.

Banished from the mainland, prisoners on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan Island await news of their fate. The prison complex is home to a number of prisons of varying levels of security.

Built over a desolated island on the coast of San Francisco, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary made history as the darkest pit you could hide prisoners from 1934 to 1963. The imposing fortress ...