Since mid-March, 11 federal prison inmates have died. They include David Knezevich, a 37-year-old Florida businessman who was found dead April 28 in a suspected suicide at a federal jail in Miami.

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...

Alcatraz prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run than other federal prisons.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them. Skyrocketing repair and supply costs compelled the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963 ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons Has Lots of Problems. Reopening Alcatraz Is Now One of Them Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them A visitor looks at the warden's house at Alcatraz Island on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco.