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

Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to once again house ...

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

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President ...

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

Explosions and fires rocked Sudan's main port city and wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a ...

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California ...

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

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

The penitentiary closed in the 1960s and has become one of San Francisco’s top tourist destinations.