Three days before gaining independence, Pakistan formally adopted its national flag on 1947. The design, inspired by the ...

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

The Trump administration will send up to 1,000 migrants to an expanded prison in Indiana dubbed the Speedway Slammer.

Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular prison rodeo.

Dark tourism” embraces sites associated with death, tragedy and the macabre. Though it may be a new description, it’s ...

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...

From decent meals to private cells, life on “The Rock” offered perks that made it surprisingly bearable for some inmates.

Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay that the Trump administration is seeking to re-open for prisoners ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been mired in controversy since the contentious release of the Epstein Files last week, ...

Alcatraz started as a fort in the early 1850s before becoming a U.S. military prison, a federal penitentiary, and, eventually, a museum. We aimed to explore why it has endured as a symbol of a ...

If America is indeed a Christian nation, then even the illegal aliens being held in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must be afforded access to priests and to the sacraments.