To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

To some in this city, turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco ...

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison raises more questions than answers for a beloved San ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

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

President Trump has proposed turning Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary back into a working prison. The island prison off the ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...