Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

The president’s suggestion to reopen the island prison-turned-museum just serves to move attention away from the issues that ...

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand the famed Alcatraz Island prison, which lies off the coast of San ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

UFC commentator Joe Rogan casts a doubt in his ability to match Nick Diaz's super human feat of swimming in shark infested ...