After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

A spokesperson dismissed the idea previously touted by the president, following a visit to the island by Interior Secretary ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is not holding his breath for the Trump administration to follow through on reopening ...

Donald Trump’s bonkers scheme to return Alcatraz Island to its inglorious past as one of the nation’s most feared prisons ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in California Thursday making a visit to the notorious ...

Reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison is widely considered a poor idea due to its high cost, legal complexity, and symbolic ...

President Donald Trump continues to face backlash from his MAGA supporters over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey ...

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.