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

Alcatraz Island is most famous for its 29-year operation as a prison. Now it's a popular tourist spot that Trump wants to ...

Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to once again house ...

It wouldn't change much and it would cost too much — but the point would be to create a spectacle of degradation.

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President ...

The island that once housed some of the country's most notorious names has been a popular tourist draw for decades.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars ...