President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago.

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President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 years.

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats. On June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...

As President Donald Trump called for the reopening of Alcatraz in a Sunday evening Truth Social post, many Americans were reminded of the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal prison facility. The former fortress in San Francisco Bay, which operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 ...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he's ordered the federal government to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. However, that plan will likely require a massive ...

He was sent to Alcatraz in 1935 and killed in 1939 while trying to escape the prison. Barker was a key player in the kidnapping of wealthy banker Edward George Bremer Jr. in January 1934.

President Donald Trump said he has directed his administration to rebuild and reopen a “substantially enlarged version of the Alcatraz Prison, which was closed in 1963 after government officials ...