Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay ...

Donald Trump has received pushback over his plans to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison due to the massive costs.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

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

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was ...

Still, the Bureau of Prisons is taking Trump’s proposal seriously. U.S. Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III ...

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it ...

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is drawing new ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...