Donald Trump announced he would direct the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI and Homeland ...

Established in 1934, this maximum-security prison was situated on Alcatraz Island, just off the coast of San Francisco, ...

Trump wants to reopen the infamous former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, as a functioning maximum-security facility for "America's most ruthless and violent offenders." ...

U.S. Judge Beryl Howell issued a permanent injunction against the president Friday night, ruling that his executive order ...

The intel memo destroys Trump’s justification for using a wartime powers law to round up Venezuelan immigrants and deport ...

Donald Trump has received pushback over his plans to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison due to the massive costs.

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

But only three inmates - brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris - successfully escaped before vanishing without a ...

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

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