A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

The Trump administration's latest publicly-fought battles come as he pushes for steep film tariffs and the reopening of one ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

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

California would see President Trump's brainchild Alcatraz as an invitation for sabotage and litigation. Nevada would see ...

California criminal justice advocates are warning that the state's closed prisons are vulnerable to federal takeover, as Trump's Alcatraz proposal has sparked a conversation about the state's ...

President Donald Trump announced that he intends to resurrect the infamous Alcatraz facility, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, as a modern maximum-security prison. The announcement ...

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen Alcatraz, a notorious prison in San Francisco, to house "America's most ...

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

California lawmakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would reopen Alcatraz with laughter, mockery and, ...

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