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

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President ...

The island that once housed some of the country's most notorious names has been a popular tourist draw for decades.

Historian Jolene Babyak shares her experience of living at Alcatraz as a child with other families and outlines some of the ...

President Donald Trump says he wants Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison. Here's what to know about ...

The penitentiary closed in the 1960s and has become one of San Francisco’s top tourist destinations.

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President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California ...

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...