NPR's A Martinez speaks with California state Sen. Scott Wiener about Trump's call to reopen Alcatraz Prison. The island is now one of the National Park Services most popular sites.

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

President Donald Trump proposes rebuilding and reopening Alcatraz prison, a former maximum-security facility off the coast of San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

President Donald Trump announced he wants to reopen Alcatraz, the prison near San Francisco that was featured in prominent ...

President Donald Trump has spoken out about wanting to bring back the famous prison Alcatraz. Learn more about the history of ...

On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a federal penitentiary again than the Democratic pols who run San Francisco.