The president wants to turn the notorious island back into a prison after more than five decades as a museum and national ...

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is not holding his breath for the Trump administration to follow through on reopening ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in California Thursday making a visit to the notorious ...

Reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison is widely considered a poor idea due to its high cost, legal complexity, and symbolic ...

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison faces major challenges due to the island's lack of wastewater treatment facilities. San Francisco may restrict sewage deliveries, complicating the ...

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff expressed skepticism about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison following U.