President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

President Donald Trump is moving forward with his plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison -- despite most experts believing it to be unrealistic. RELATED: Trump says he will reopen notorious ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to turn Alcatraz back into a prison.

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

Legal experts told Fox News on Monday that President Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz off the California coast but ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as a federal prison.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit prison in San Francisco Bay just as the local PBS affiliate was airing the ...

US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.