Democrats and Republicans alike scoff at the idea of reopening the island prison that has served as a tourist attraction for ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

Alcatraz the penitentiary shut down in 1963, but Alcatraz the idea has lived on, a permanent part of the American mythology.

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

U.S. President Donald Trump claims he wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

Former President Donald Trump has proposed reopening Alcatraz Island as a federal prison to address what he calls a "national ...

California lawmakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would reopen Alcatraz with laughter, mockery and, ...