President Donald Trump has said he’d like to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous island lockup in the middle of San Francisco Bay, turning it into a maximum-security fortress.

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

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

After being arrested in 2021, a Muscatine woman recently was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for producing and ...

President Donald Trump has called for Alcatraz to be reopened as a modern maximum-security facility. Perched on an island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco, the former federal prison ...

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a directive from Trump to "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Donald Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz ... cell blocks, where broken toilets remain in the spartan cells. On an audio tour narrated by former inmates and prison guards, they are ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison for incarcerating “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders” has all the hallmarks of his cruel ...