As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

President Trump has proposed turning Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary back into a working prison. The island prison off the ...

The problem isn’t that Donald Trump pitched an absurd idea about reopening Alcatraz. The problem are his sycophants who are ...

"He says things. And sometimes he does them, and sometimes he doesn't. So who knows," says Bill Keyser, a tourist from Chicago at Alcatraz prison, which closed in 1963 and is now a sightseeing ...

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

President Donald Trump is eyeing a notorious site to incarcerate what he calls “America’s most ruthless and violent” prisoners. Trump is looking to re-open Alcatraz, the maximum-security island prison ...

Democrats and Republicans alike scoff at the idea of reopening the island prison that has served as a tourist attraction for ...

Canada's new prime minister Mark Carney won with a promise to confront U.S. President Donald Trump's aggression.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

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, California. It ceased operations in 1963 primarily due to its prohibitive costs ...