Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit prison in San Francisco Bay just as the local PBS affiliate was airing the ...

Trump announced plans Sunday to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to house "America's most ruthless and violent Offenders." ...

Whatever the delivery mechanism, President Donald Trump loves to toss out startling ideas aimed at dropping jaws, ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: US President Donald Trump (R) with his son Donald Trump Jr. (C) and US Vice President JD Vance after being sworn in during an inauguration ceremony in the rotunda of ...

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

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Sunday that he is directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, the infamous former prison, as a place to “house America’s most ...