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

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

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...

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

Even Elon Musk would have to chainsaw the idea of having to send ships of materials and laborers — and eventually prisoners ...

Alcatraz was also known as a prison that no one escaped from. Trump wants to prove to the public that he is serious about ...

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

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...