Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

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

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as ...

It has been more than six decades since Alcatraz, which sits in San Francisco Bay, operated as a prison. Today it is best ...

Trump has called for the reopening of Alcatraz, which was designated a museum and historic site after closing more than 60 ...

Alcatraz held less than 1 percent of the federal prison population of the time, with an average of about 260 to 275 inmates. The facility was shut down in March 1963 because of steep operational ...

Mr. Trump said he is directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...

Alcatraz closed its doors as a federal prison 60 years ago after housing some of America's most infamous criminals, including Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. During its 29-year run as a ...