As President Trump moves to reopen Alcatraz, the penitentiary's most famous escape resurface. Sixty-four years later, no one ...

The Alcatraz escape remains a mystery more than six decades later. In 1962, three inmates managed to break out of the high-security prison, which was widely considered unbreakable.

On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...

After a 2025 race that ended with triathlete Jose Perez paralyzed, a gross negligence lawsuit, and new owners, the 2026 edition of the iconic Escape From Alcatraz triathlon will go off this weekend.

In June 1962, three inmates ingeniously escaped Alcatraz by crafting a lifeboat from prison raincoats. The escapees used stolen tools and dummy heads to outsmart guards and navigate to the prison roof ...