President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...

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

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

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which ...

These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests re-establishing a prison.

President Trump recently floated the idea of reopening San Francisco’s Alcatraz federal penitentiary. Could he reopen Washington’s abandoned island prison? In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said ...

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.

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for the ...

President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful ...

Several notorious criminals were held at Alcatraz after it was transformed in 1934 from a military jail to a maximum-security ...