When Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay opened ... Tunneling beneath the Wall was another popular means of escape. Tunnel builders included professional gangs, which charged refugees ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... have also lifted the veil on the prison’s most famous 1962 escape, when Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin made a successful ...

John and Clarence Anglin were transferred separately to Alcatraz, where they began plotting their escape with fellow inmates ... spoons and other implements to tunnel to freedom, hiding their ...

Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up the ...

The organizers of the iconic Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon are launching the first-ever ESCAPE Aquathlon, a new swim-run event. What's the best way to break out of a pandemic-induced fitness rut?