At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay ...

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

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist ...

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

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

The name Alcatraz still elicits thoughts about the shady characters kept in isolating (and poor) conditions that made the ...

Trump plans to reopen Alcatraz, infamous prison could see new inmates after 60 years US President Donald Trump has announced ...

But only three inmates - brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris - successfully escaped before vanishing without a ...

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.