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Donald Trump made the “Gulf of America” so great again that he’s considering implementing a similar rebrand for another body ...

Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal government reopen it?

President Donald Trump has called for Alcatraz to be reopened as a modern maximum-security facility. Perched on an island ...

Alcatraz welcomes 1.2 million visitors a year and generates over $60 million in revenue for the National Park Service.

Today on AirTalk, how the Catholic Church has been working through its process of picking a new pope; the economics of aging; ...

If President Donald Trump's plans to reopen Alcatraz as a prison falls through, one former FBI agent claims he has ...

Even Elon Musk would have to chainsaw the idea of having to send ships of materials and laborers — and eventually prisoners ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – launched one of the ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

Judge Benjamin Settle in Washington issued a nationwide injunction in March, ruling there’s “no claim and no evidence that ...

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...