As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

US President Donald Trump has said he would like to see Alcatraz Island return to its former role as a high-security prison, ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco ’s notorious island prison, has ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller revealed why President Donald Trump decided to reopen the famous Alcatraz ...

Alcatraz the penitentiary shut down in 1963, but Alcatraz the idea has lived on, a permanent part of the American mythology.

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

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison raises more questions than answers for a beloved San ...