But unless the Trump administration wants to spend a mountain of taxpayer money, the only people staffing the new Alcatraz, if it's ever finished, will be the ghosts of the old prison. In any case ...

Since the prison doors of Alcatraz last slammed shut, the island — nicknamed "The Rock" — has become a popular tourist destination, but now the president wants it rebuilt to crack down on violent ...

President Trump expressed interest in reopening the infamous Alcatraz penitentiary Sunday after a South Florida TV station aired the 1979 Clint Eastwood film “Escape from Alcatraz.” ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that he's directing federal agencies to reopen the prison at Alcatraz after rebuilding and expanding the prison that was shuttered over 60 years ago and ...

From Al Capone to George "Machine Gun" Kelly, more than 1,500 men were incarcerated at Alcatraz during the nearly 30 years it was in operation in the San Francisco Bay. The infamous prison-turned ...

Trump's directive has revived debate over the prison that once held Al Capone. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious ...

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, California — If the national park rangers of Alcatraz are soon replaced by the prison wardens of California’s newest penitentiary, the throngs of tourists marching across the ...

At the rocky edge of Alcatraz, a Brandt’s cormorant is committing a crime. A cormorant neighbor just returned from a patch of nearby grass, where it plucked a mouthful of greens and waddled back ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison even though it has been closed for more than 60 years. Its outsized place in the ...