After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and ...

Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in San Francisco to inspect the former Alcatraz Island ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes ...

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Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

President Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist attractions — back ...