Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

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

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

Let's reserve one unit for the most notorious of criminals: a man capable of high crimes, violations of the United States ...

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

Located on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay ... Image: People tour the main cell house where inmates once lived. Pic: AP Inside, prisoners were always in individual cells with a ...

People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco (AP) US President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

Mr. Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night ... rampant crime of the 1920s and 1930s," the bureau says on its website. File photo of Cell Block 'A' in Alcatraz prison.Photo 12/Universal ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San Francisco.

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The dramatic ...