President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

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

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as ...

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

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

Now, Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz prison and fill it with America's "most ruthless" criminals. It has been decades since the last inmate was moved out of the island penitentiary, which is now ...

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

That could all change again if President Donald Trump gets his way. Trump wrote Sunday on social media that he is directing the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department and other agencies to ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit prison in San Francisco Bay just as the local PBS affiliate was airing the ...