President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

President Donald Trump is moving forward with his plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison -- despite most experts believing it to be unrealistic.RELATED: Trump says he will reopen notorious ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

Legal experts told Fox News on Monday that President Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz off the California coast but ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as a federal prison.

That could all change again if President Donald Trump gets his way. Trump wrote Sunday on social media that he is directing the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department and other agencies to ...

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

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

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

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.