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

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

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

President Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants to “reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt” prison on San Francisco ...

The "worst of the worst" once served their sentences here. Today, "the Rock" is one of San Francisco's biggest attractions. Could Alcatraz, now a museum twice as long as it was a prison, become a ...

Robert Stroud, known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, started studying birds while in prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists roaming the decayed historic grounds struggled to grasp the logic.

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

Visitors to the notorious prison contemplated Trump’s idea from inside cramped, windowless cells.

A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay ...

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