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

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

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

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

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

The penitentiary closed in the 1960s and has become one of San Francisco’s top tourist destinations.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

Visitors to the notorious prison contemplated Trump’s idea from inside cramped, windowless cells.

Bulger was beaten to death inside his cell at the Hazelton federal prison in West Virginia on Oct. 30, 2018, shortly after he was transferred from a prison in Florida. William Bulger alleges in the ...

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