Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

The federal Bureau of Prisons visited Alcatraz last week and plans to return in the future for an assessment, the head of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area revealed at a public meeting in the ...

President Trump's recent announcement regarding the potential reopening of Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary has ignited a ...