Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms - How feasible the ...

Trump has voiced plans to reopen and enlarge the notorious prison, Alcatraz. Will it actually happen? Here's what to know.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit prison in San Francisco Bay just as the local PBS affiliate was airing the ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

The island that once housed some of the country's most notorious names has been a popular tourist draw for decades.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary. Alcatraz Island opened to the public in ...

Mr. Himmelman is a writer at work on a book about Alcatraz. When President Trump recently said he wanted to reopen Alcatraz, to “lock up the most dangerous criminals and keep them far away from ...

“Nobody’s ever escaped from Alcatraz,” Trump asserted Monday in the Oval Office. Morris and the Anglins ended up in America’s most foreboding prison for the most obvious reason: They were ...