An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Bureau of Prisons director said it will "vigorously" pursue "all avenues to support and implement" the Trump's agenda after ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as ...

"We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco ...

"That figure did not include daily operating costs - Alcatraz was nearly three times more expensive to operate than any other Federal prison," the bureau's website read. In 1959, the daily per ...

President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities ... Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to get the massive ...

Alcatraz was closed because it was too expensive to continue operating, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website, in large part due to its island location.

The Bureau of Prisons currently has 16 penitentiaries performing the same high-security functions as Alcatraz ... which is home to the federal death chamber. The order comes as Trump has been ...

That figure did not include daily operating costs — Alcatraz was nearly three times more expensive to operate than any other Federal prison,” the bureau says.

That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons ... who came into our Country illegally.” The famous federal prison on Alcatraz Island, which housed well-known criminals such as ...