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

After raising red flags with his administration's plans to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad, Donald Trump is reopening Alcatraz.

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.

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

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Sunday that he is directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen ...

Is Donald Trump losing it? A viral clip posted via X showed Trump answering reporters’ questions about a key House domestic policy bill — then turning around and walking straight into a wall instead ...

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

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

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

The Trump administration's latest publicly-fought battles come as he pushes for steep film tariffs and the reopening of one ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 ...

Yet the fact that the service is currently streaming the three best-known movies about the old San Franscisco island prison Alcatraz – Birdman of Alcatraz, Escape from Alcatraz, and The Rock – seems ...