But now, decades since the island was purchased by the National Park Service and turned into a popular tourist destination, ...

President Trump directed federal officials to open Alcatraz for detainees. It's not the first time the topic has cropped up.

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...

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

The Trump administration's latest publicly-fought battles come as he pushes for steep film tariffs and the reopening of one ...

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

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Sunday that he is directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen ...

Trump announced plans Sunday to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to house "America's most ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

After initially calling Trump’s Alcatraz order “distraction day in Washington,” Newsom said Monday that state officials ...

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