Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 12, 1962, reporting the escape of three prisoners from Alcatraz prison in California on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alcatraz Federal Prison in San Francisco Bay, California, 1938. (BSLOC_2013_8_165) - Everett Collection More than 60 years after ...

When one thinks of cinema-defining prison dramas, the first title that most often comes to mind is The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont's moving adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita ...

Update 8/7/26: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Discovery Channel’s “Escape from Alcatraz” would premiere on Aug. 6. Discovery has not announced an official premiere date for ...

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 ...

Discovery Channel has unveiled new programming in its unscripted slate, with shows covering everything from extreme survival in the face of nature to investigations that seek to expose hidden truths ...

COLUMBIA - It was 68 years ago that the Bank of Columbia was robbed, setting off a chain of events that ended in an escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary four years later.

Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and ...