Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

If the feds need new prisons, Congress should appropriate the money to build them. But leave Alcatraz as is, part of a ...

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

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

The US president plans to reopen this island prison in the San Francisco Bay, which has been closed since 1963, in order to ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

He claims that ‘for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders’.Donald Trump has ...