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.

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

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

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which ...

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

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

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

The White House is backtracking after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he was renaming Veterans Day.

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.