The most infamous inmate of Alcatraz was Al Capone, the Chicago mob boss who was nicknamed Scarface over the scars on his ...

President Donald Trump proposes rebuilding and reopening Alcatraz prison, a former maximum-security facility off the coast of San Francisco.

The US Army built a fort there in the 1850s ... Stroud later killed a prison guard and was sentenced to life in solitary confinement at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. While in prison, Stroud ...