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

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

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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