Alcatraz, a popular tourist attraction, closed as a prison in 1963 after federal officials said it was too expensive to operate. ( (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images))© (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) ...

President's Trump's audacious plan to convert Alcatraz back to a maximum- security prison could come with a hefty price tag: $2 billion, administration sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Trump's ...

Alcatraz started as a fort in the early 1850s before becoming a U.S. military prison, a federal penitentiary, and, eventually, a museum. We aimed to explore why it has endured as a symbol of a ...

Here’s a brief timeline of Alcatraz’s change from prison to public destination, and what the Trump administration is doing about it. 1850s: Early U.S. operations on Alcatraz Island ...

The renewed noise around reopening Alcatraz as a prison comes as President Trump has been actively seeking to turn the page from ongoing fallout related to the administration’s handling of the ...

In May, President Donald Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco's most visited tourist attractions — back into a high-security federal prison for violent offenders.

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump’s push to reopen the historic Alcatraz prison near San Francisco as “the stupidest initiative put forth by this ...

For Alcatraz to operate once again as a prison, Congress would have to pass legislation to remove National Environmental Policy Act and Historic Preservation Act requirements for the area.

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, Axios reported on Friday citing administration sources.

Feds prep for reopening of Alcatraz prison. Critics call it the ‘stupidest initiative yet’ Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times Jul 17, 2025 Jul 17, 2025 Buy Now ...