President Trump directs federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz prison for violent offenders. The historic island facility faces ...

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

Since when does a criminal’s right to make a cup of tea come before the safety of prison officers? That was the question ...

Despite an extensive manhunt, the three were never found, leaving behind America’s most enduring prison mystery. After 29 ...

A former inmate of Alcatraz has laughed off Donald Trump's proposal to reopen the notorious prison. The US President dropped a bombshell earlier this month when he posted on his Truth Social site ...

A former inmate of Alcatraz who once swept the ... is the last known living man to have worn the steel-gray uniform of Alcatraz, but even as a fervent Trump supporter he believes the president's ...

The last-known living inmate to serve time in Alcatraz has revealed what haunted him most about being locked up on the notorious island prison that President Trump plans to reopen. Charlie Hopkins ...

Now 93 and living in Florida, Hopkins said the San Francisco National Archives informed him that he is likely the last surviving former Alcatraz inmate. Another former inmate, William Baker ...

Now 93 and living in Florida, Hopkins said the San Francisco National Archives informed him that he is likely the last surviving former Alcatraz inmate. The BBC could not independently verify this. In ...

What? Birds in cages? “Alcatraz was the most sinister of all America’s prisons and the hardcore officials that ran The Rock were not about to let any inmate move in with a collection of pet ...