President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison ...

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

One of three cell tiers of individual cells at the main block of the Alcatraz Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, March 15, 1956. What made Alcatraz unique was its ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back ... be needed to reopen the prison. “It didn’t seem very humane to me,” Frank said. “They had the cells stacked on top of each other.

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in ... as having one man per cell — at Alcatraz compared ...

Donald Trump's call to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay has garnered attention since the president posted about it on May 4. The federal prison on Alcatraz Island ...

At its peak Alcatraz housed around 260 to 275, and never reached its maximum 336-cell capacity. Such a capacity was less than one percent of the federal prison population at the time. As of 2025 ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz ... out of their cells. They then crawled through a ventilator shaft on the prison’s roof ...

Associated Press May 5, 2025 May 5, 2025 0 President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach ...