President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as ...

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to turn Alcatraz back into a prison.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

Now, Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz prison and fill it with America's "most ruthless" criminals. It has been decades since the last inmate was moved out of the island penitentiary, which is now ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

Legal experts told Fox News on Monday that President Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz off the California coast but ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.