President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

President Donald Trump made some more announcements in social media posts late Sunday — he said he’s ordered federal agencies ...

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical ...

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars ...

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

On Saturday, March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in his Columbia University ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous ...