In the post, Trump said he was directing the DOJ, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to look into rebuilding and ...

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

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.

To some in this city, turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

President Trump says he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison however there are still many hurdles before the island ...

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

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

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

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...