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 ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

On March 21, 1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the world-famous maximum-security prison located on a cold island in the San Francisco Bay, officially closed its doors. As the last 27 inmates were ...

From The Haight to the Golden Gate -- the West Coast landmark crowned the most iconic bridge in the world -- San Francisco has no shortage of dazzling attractions. It's even home to the 'world's worst ...