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

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...

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

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

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

Donald Trump announced he would direct the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI and Homeland ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

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

President Donald Trump’s feed on his Truth Social platform, like his Twitter feed of yore, is a real-time window into the ...

Trump announces plans to revive Alcatraz as a federal prison. Explore the infamous facility's history of escape attempts and ...

President Trump directed federal officials to open Alcatraz for detainees. It's not the first time the topic has cropped up.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...