On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a ...

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, James "Whitey" Bulger, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz" all served time at the ...

President Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz Island for some of the nation's most violent criminals. Author Jolene Babyak's ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

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

Historian Jolene Babyak shares her experience of living at Alcatraz as a child with other families and outlines some of the ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

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

Trump announces plans to revive Alcatraz as a federal prison. Explore the infamous facility's history of escape attempts and ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists roaming the decayed historic grounds struggled to grasp the logic.

For more than 80 years, the prison on Alcatraz Island has been mostly a museum. But President Donald Trump said on Sunday ...