Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff expressed skepticism about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison following U.S.

DETENTION PREVENTION: While Donald Trump was in Florida touting the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget-related bill in California containing a little-known provision ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are expected to visit the former federal prison, which the ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

A spokesperson dismissed the idea previously touted by the president, following a visit to the island by Interior Secretary ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California on Thursday, just two months after President Trump ordered the reopening of the ...

Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day Trump lets her release the Epstein files. So, never,” said Izzy Gardon, Newsom’s ...

Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys, are ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is not holding his breath for the Trump administration to follow through on reopening ...

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the effort to reopen the dilapidated former prison is a "diversionary tactic." ...