U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

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

MIAMI (AP) — A legal challenge to a hastily-built immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades was filed in the ...

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

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.

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

President Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist attractions — back ...

Alcatraz is one of San Francisco's biggest sightseeing attractions, but on Thursday two members of the Trump administration toured the former federal prison, indicating they were on a mission to ...

Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Thursday blasted the Trump administration’s effort to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison.