When Alcatraz closed in 1963, it was in such bad shape that the federal government ruled it would be more cost effective to ...

Established in 1934, this maximum-security prison was situated on Alcatraz Island, just off the coast of San Francisco, California. It ceased operations in 1963 primarily due to its prohibitive costs ...

California lawmakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would reopen Alcatraz with laughter, mockery and, ...

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

Donald Trump made a wild post Tuesday slamming Canada just moments before Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at the ...

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

The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against ...

Democrats and Republicans alike scoff at the idea of reopening the island prison that has served as a tourist attraction for ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

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 ...

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