President Trump directs federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz prison for violent offenders. The historic island facility faces ...

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms - How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is ...

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

Always turned on by his most extreme ideas, Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. He apparently got this twisted idea after watching Don Siegel’s 1979 film with Clint Eastwood ...

Getting to Alcatraz, then getting out Morris and the Anglins ended up in America’s most foreboding prison for the most obvious reason: They were constantly trying to escape every other place ...

they did not elaborate on the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz. Nor did the agency spokesperson provide answers regarding the agency's future role in reforming the prison ...