It wouldn't change much and it would cost too much — but the point would be to create a spectacle of degradation.

Life insurers are the single largest investor in U.S. corporate bonds. When it comes to supporting America’s economy, life ...

Republican senators are drawing a bright line against President Trump’s exploration of sending “homegrown” criminals who are ...

Clint Eastwood's biographical prison drama Escape From Alcatraz, which tells the story of the only successful escape from the notorious prison in 1962, is currently wowing audiences on Netflix, who ...

Trump and Pelosi go head-to-head over the prospect of re-converting Alcatraz Island back into a prison, after more that six ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists roaming the decayed historic grounds struggled to grasp the logic.

At every level of government, authority figures are embracing once-extreme ideas, including that the Earth is flat or that ...

For more than 80 years, the prison on Alcatraz Island has been mostly a museum. But President Donald Trump said on Sunday ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with California state Sen. Scott Wiener about Trump's call to reopen Alcatraz Prison. The island is now one of the National Park Services most popular sites.

Critics on Monday were quick to point out challenges to President Donald Trump’s call over the weekend to rebuild and reopen ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for ...