When you hear the name Alcatraz, you probably think of Alcatraz Island up San Francisco way. Or if you know something about ...

In 1850, President Millard Fillmore designated the island as a fortress to protect San Francisco ... part of the specific history of Alcatraz, but taking the jail as a metaphor, as a place ...

Inmates at a San Francisco jail must endure almost daily floods of raw sewage with feces floating on the floor of cells where they eat and sleep, three prisoners claim in a new lawsuit. SAN FRANCISCO ...