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

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

Donald Trump shared more details on his plan to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Monday. The president, who said he wants to use the notorious prison to house "America's ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.