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 problem isn’t that Donald Trump pitched an absurd idea about reopening Alcatraz. The problem are his sycophants who are ...

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 ...

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

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

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

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

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump should do more than reopen a prison on Alcatraz. He should commission the construction of a Statue of ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...