Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay ...

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

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

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

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

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

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From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some ...

Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of ...

President Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the "worst of the worst" criminals, but Jolene Babyak remembers "The Rock" as a wonderful place to grow up.

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963.