Prisoner No. 85 spent four years at the island penitentiary ...

JAILHOUSE ROCK: Alcatraz, aka The Rock, sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff By Melanie Stetson Freeman, Staff photographer; Troy Aidan Sambajon, Staff writer San ...

There are three prominent islands that jut out in San Francisco Bay just as you enter the Golden Gate. The one 1 ½ mile north of North Beach was originally named Yerba Buena by the explorer Ayala in ...

In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...