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

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

Bureau of Prisons director said it will "vigorously" pursue "all avenues to support and implement" the Trump's agenda after ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

"We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous ...

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

President Trump is calling for Alcatraz, the former San Francisco federal island prison closed decades ago because it was too ...

The Trump administration has found another country to send people to, even as the courts insist he has to return hundreds of ...