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

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

President Trump is dreaming of reopening Alcatraz as a prison, but making it happen could fare more like a nightmare with a ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

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

President Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco. How much did it cost to operate? Why ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

The former island prison is both a National Historic Landmark and a national park site that draws more than a million ...

According to Alcatraz History, the prison called “the Rock” incarcerated prisoners from 1934 until 1963, and "was America's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's ...

Donald Trump announced he would be directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to begin taking steps to renovate and eventually ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has announced plans to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay to detain ...