President Donald Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz, the famed San Francisco-area prison closed more than 60 years ago, drew swift backlash from California Democrats and surprise from visiting tourists.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for ...

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

People are continuing to react after President Donald Trump said Sunday he is directing his administration to reopen and ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie ...

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show desk tonight to analyze Trump’s latest brain drippings, which consisted of an upcoming ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

"The President needs to hear this," Thomas Gant, Community Organizer for the Center for Community Alternatives, responded to ...

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it would be much less expensive to simply build a new prison elsewhere. The ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt discusses President Donald Trump’s move to reopen and expand Alcatraz prison on ‘Hannity.’ ...