President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place ...

PERCHED on a rocky island a mile out to sea from San Francisco looms the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. One of the world’s most infamous prisons, it was built for the worst of the worst and ...

US President Donald Trump has ordered the reopening and expansion of a notorious prison, which was shut down in 1963.

Donald Maier, 62, was found dead in his cell in February 2024. The medical examiner determined he died of dehydration and ...