Tourists at the former Alcatraz jail in the US city of San Francisco have been giving their reactions to Trump’s plan.

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the ...

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

Prisoners were deported to the lunar surface and forgotten. Their descendants were born in captivity and lived their entire ...

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

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

US President Donald Trump wants to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison, a tourist attraction and museum for over 60 years - ...

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

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 ...