Alcatraz — which symbolized inescapable and cruel conditions due to its maximum security and location — held noteworthy criminals in its 29-year run before shuttering in 1963 after it fell into ...

Chief among them: Alcatraz Island. All Alcatraz tours were sold out for the holiday weekend. According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison. What we know: Several top leaders of the Bureau of ...

Always turned on by his most extreme ideas, Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. He apparently got this twisted idea after watching Don Siegel’s 1979 film with Clint Eastwood ...

Situated on a tiny island off San Francisco, Alcatraz prison for years held high-profile criminals before it was decommissioned and turned into a popular tourist attraction. Here are five things ...

MELVILLE, New York — Donald ‍Trump ‍announced ‍that ‍he ‍is ‍directing ‍the ‍Bureau ‍of ‍Prisons ‍to ‍rebuild ‍and ‍enlarge ‍Alcatraz ‍Prison ‍“to ‍house ...

Federal Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall III expressed confidence in the viability of using Alcatraz again, stating that he is “really excited” about putting the facility back to use.