President Donald Trump recently stated he had ordered the reopening of Alcatraz prison.  Alcatraz, which is currently a museum and national park, was used a ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it would be much less expensive to simply build a new prison elsewhere. The ...

Live updates and the latest news as Trump announces Washington will host the NFL draft and signs executive orders. He joined ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...