President Trump directs federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz prison for violent offenders. The historic island facility faces ...

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on social media.

President Donald Trump's proposal to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is facing scrutiny over the potential cost of the plan. In a Truth Social post on Sunday ...

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

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.

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

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

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

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

Despite President Donald Trump's administration confirming that a plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz is already underway, San Francisco politicians are dismissing it as an unserious "distraction." ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic site struggled to see the logic.