Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

In the post, Trump said he was directing the DOJ, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to look into rebuilding and ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison raises more questions than answers for a beloved San ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

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