President Trump has directed the reopening of Alcatraz, the infamous former prison, sparking curiosity about its history.

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President Donald Trump announced that he intends to resurrect the infamous Alcatraz facility, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, as a modern maximum-security prison. The announcement ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

California criminal justice advocates are warning that the state's closed prisons are vulnerable to federal takeover, as Trump's Alcatraz proposal has sparked a conversation about the state's ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

California would see President Trump's brainchild Alcatraz as an invitation for sabotage and litigation. Nevada would see ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom blames oil producers for jacking up prices and “fleecing” California drivers. He pushed legislation in recent years to let regulators cap industry profit margins and to require the ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...

The Trump administration's latest publicly-fought battles come as he pushes for steep film tariffs and the reopening of one ...

“I guess I was supposed to be a moviemaker,” said Donald Trump today when asked why he decided to reopen the infamous prison ...