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

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

President Donald Trump posted Sunday on his Truth Social platform that he’s ordered various government agencies to reopen ...

Reopening Alcatraz would be the ultimate iteration of this strategy, creating a living symbol of the president’s choreographed strength and his mockery of political correctness. And even if ...

President Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz prison has drawn both support and fierce criticism. Officials, experts, and tourism ...

ALCATRAZ – Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President ... Tavares considers himself a political moderate, and he finds Trump’s Alcatraz plan not so much far right ...