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.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison for incarcerating “America’s most ...

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

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.