The president’s suggestion to reopen the island prison-turned-museum just serves to move attention away from the issues that ...

The president’s call to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island is right in line with his sadistic notion of justice, no matter the cost or the physical obstacles to turning The Rock — ...

Amy Wamsley tells people to live their dreams. She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12.

President Trump made headlines recently for suggesting that Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay, should be ...

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch. "It can’t be a ...