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

It wouldn't change much and it would cost too much — but the point would be to create a spectacle of degradation.

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

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President ...

The island that once housed some of the country's most notorious names has been a popular tourist draw for decades.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California ...

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

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

President Trump directed federal officials to open Alcatraz for detainees. It's not the first time the topic has cropped up.

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.