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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of June 12, 1962, a guard at Alcatraz reached through the bars to wake Frank Morris, and Morris's head rolled ...

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 ...

About Escape from Alcatraz. Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel that depicts the June 1962 prisoner escape from the fe ...

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 ...