Reopening Alcatraz would likely take years of construction and a huge influx of funding and manpower to the BOP, ... will be the ghosts of the old prison. In any case, it will be another bloated, ...

Visit the historic Alcatraz prison is ranked #7 out of 30 things to do in San Francisco. See pictures and our review of Visit the historic Alcatraz prison.

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist the deteriorating facility should be reopened.

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 ...

Right off the bat, there is no practical need to start housing prisoners at Alcatraz. The United States already has maximum-security prisons for the nation’s “most ruthless and violent” felons.

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison was summarily rejected on Monday by some visitors to the tourist site in San Francisco Bay.