Trump wants to reopen the infamous former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, as a functioning maximum-security facility for "America's most ruthless and violent offenders." ...

Donald Trump has received pushback over his plans to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison due to the massive costs.

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

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

Still, the Bureau of Prisons is taking Trump’s proposal seriously. U.S. Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III ...

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it ...

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is drawing new ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Perched on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz stands out as one of America's most notorious and mysterious prisons ...

Former President Donald Trump has proposed reopening Alcatraz Island as a federal prison to address what he calls a "national ...