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 said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

President Trump's suggestion to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ignores decades of data, deadly mistakes, and public ...

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

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

By backing an advisory committee, Gorell is upholding the foundational principles of our constitutional republic: representative government, civic oversight, and public engagement. Cummings ...

Comes mutterings about San Francisco’s tough prison Alcatraz coming back. The famous “Rock,” as the impregnable jail was called, is an island in tough surrounding water making escapes near ...

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

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