Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal government reopen it?

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom said nothing about President Trump's order to reopen and rebuild the notorious Alcatraz ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State ...

President Donald Trump announced that he intends to resurrect the infamous Alcatraz facility, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, as a modern maximum-security prison. The announcement ...

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

An Alcatraz historian has warned the infamous prison, which dates back to the mid-19th century, would require major work ...

President Trump wants to bring back Alcatraz—not as a museum for history buffs or field trips, but as a fully operational ...

If President Donald Trump's plans to reopen Alcatraz as a prison falls through, one former FBI agent claims he has ...

President Trump stated Sunday, May 4 that he is directing, “…the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to ...

The Trump administration has found another country to send people to, even as the courts insist he has to return hundreds of ...