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 ...

Letters include how public confidence in elections must be actively maintained; and a suggestion for the first inmate if ...

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

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 ...

It’s a move that feels less about public safety and more about raw assertion of power—an unmistakable message that control matters more than correction, and fear is more useful than fairness. Trump’s ...

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 ...

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