President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago. Trump ...

President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful place to grow ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...

The island off San Francisco housed famous criminals, including Al Capone, in the mid-20th century. Now a National Historic Landmark, it's a tourist attraction with over a million annual visitors. San ...

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The dramatic ...

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. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz on July 17, the infamous federal prison island in the San Francisco Bay that President Donald Trump has said he wants to reopen to house the country's "most ...

President Trump recently floated the idea of reopening San Francisco’s Alcatraz federal penitentiary. Could he reopen a Pacific Northwest abandoned island prison? In a Truth Social post on Sunday, ...