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

President Trump's suggestion to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ignores decades of data, deadly mistakes, and public reckoning with the failures of punitive incarceration.

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

President Trump wants to bring back Alcatraz—not as a museum for history buffs or field trips, but as a fully operational ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco ’s notorious island prison, has ...

Trump has voiced plans to reopen and enlarge the notorious prison, Alcatraz. Will it actually happen? Here's what to know.

The same is true of Alcatraz, or as President Trump put it in a Truth Social post announcing his intention to re-open the prison in San Francisco Bay, “ALCATRAZ.” In his post, Trump declared ...

Marc writes: “He’s typical of thousands of public employees ... “impressionable old [man]” who fell for the myth of Alcatraz, most probably from watching the 1979 Clint Eastwood escape ...

The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board writes that Trump “should ditch his Alcatraz fantasy and build a new prison at an existing ...