The Warden is never identified by name, but he does mention his predecessors, Wardens Johnston and Blackwell. Despite these minor creative liberties, Escape from Alcatraz is largely faithful to ...

He's presumably referring to James A. Johnston (note the T in his last name, which the warden does not pronounce), who was the first warden of Alcatraz, presiding over its opening in 1934 and retiring ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

including the ruins of what was once the warden’s house.Credit...Ian C. Bates for The New York Times Several years after federal officials closed Alcatraz as a prison, Native American activists ...

This is a record card at the National Archives in Kansas City from the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth for Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz. There also exists a letter from the warden ...

(AP Photo/Noah Berger) Visitors tour Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn) A visitor looks at the warden’s house at Alcatraz Island on Monday ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...

In fact, it's called "the Alcatraz of the Rockies." No one has ever escaped. Former warden Robert Hood once memorably described ADX Florence as "a clean version of hell." "I don't know what hell ...

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ ... including the warden. In December, the ...