The last-known living inmate to serve time in Alcatraz has revealed what haunted him most about being locked up on the ...

Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was as much a psychological prison as it was a ...

Trump announces plans to revive Alcatraz as a federal prison. Explore the infamous facility's history of escape attempts and ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, ...

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

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President Trump posted Sunday on Truth Social.

President Donald J. Trump's latest brainstorm du jour is to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island where he plans to incarcerate America's most dangerous criminals. This despite the ...

Alcatraz, a 22-acre (8.9 hectare) islet with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, was once the crown jewel of the federal prison system ... a holding cell during a ...

President Donald Trump said he has directed his administration to rebuild and reopen a “substantially enlarged version of the Alcatraz Prison, which was closed in 1963 after government officials ...

Since its closure in 1963, Alcatraz Prison has become ... escape a hard enough prospect, the prison was retrofitted so that each prisoner was kept to one cell, and one guard was on duty for ...