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

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get ...

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.

Around 1910, Alcatraz was being used to house military prisoners, who built the island's iconic three-story cell house that still stands on the island today. Later, when the U.S. government was ...

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

EL PAÍS paid a visit to the world’s most famous prison. It closed 62 years ago, but now, the US president wants to reopen it ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

The choice of location puzzled the Smith couple from Britain, who noted the Alcatraz buildings are in disrepair and in no shape to serve as living quarters even for “the dregs of society ...

A building stands on Alcatraz Island on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. AP Homan also said he had “no idea” how much it would cost to modernize Alcatraz, which opened in ...

THERE ON THE HOME PAGE. HISTORIANS SAY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO REOPEN AND EXPAND ALCATRAZ WOULD REQUIRE TEARING DOWN THE OLD BUILDINGS, AND THAT TAKES AWAY TOURISM DOLLARS. HERE’S KCRA 3’S ...

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

The history of Alcatraz Island as a detention center dates back to 1868 when the U.S. military created a disciplinary barrack on site. The famous prison building known as the Rock was built in ...