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

Around 1910, Alcatraz was being used to house military prisoners, who built the island's iconic three-story cell house that ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.