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

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

The president’s call to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island is right in line with his sadistic notion of justice, no matter the cost or the physical obstacles to turning The Rock — ...

Armed with robots, lasers, and specialized drones, Pete Kelsey and his team 3D-mapped all of Alcatraz Island, gaining access to areas previously off limits. Over the course of 13 months, the team ...

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and ...

Nor will he get pushback from Republicans in Congress, who’ve said only this: (YouTube: tinyurl.com/theyspeak2u ). Scores of judges from both parties have spoken up, forcefully, though ( ...

Restoring the infamous island penitentiary would be a logistical nightmare, experts say: ‘on a cost-benefit analysis, it’s ...

The prison off the coast of San Francisco is where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" ...

Torres: Sightseeing boats can boast spotting dolphins, manatees, sea turtles and maybe a glimpse of the Shoe Bomber or el ...

Since then the walls of Alcatraz have rotted in the salty sea wind. Restoring it from its current status as a decaying museum ...

Italian is such an expressive language: Asked about the image of Trump as pope, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York declined to say whether he was personally offended, but “As the Italians say, it was ...

Everyone can see that Grandpa Trump has become a menace, but no one is doing anything to limit the damage, much less to take ...