Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

Prosecutors say John Stinson, Kenneth Johnson and Francis Clement will probably spend the rest of their lives in federal ...

“The birds can go in and out. And they chose to come there.” ...

In the 1993 cult classic So I Married an Axe Murderer, Phil Hartman infamously portrayed Alcatraz tour guide John Johnson, who identifies as “Vicky.

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the entirety of Alcatraz’s operation as a federal penitentiary, grasped the ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, taken on May 5, 2025. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of ...

“CECOT is what the Bukele regime wants you to see, because they will not show you the images of Mariona, they will not show ...

Visitors take a round-trip ferry to walk the grounds and spend $60 ... Part of Mr. Trump's plan is to rebuild Alcatraz into a "substantially enlarged" prison, which could house up to 336 prisoners.

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for ...

Despite the atrocities that occurred there, over the last few decades, Alcatraz Island has offered tours of the grounds to locals and visitors alike year-round. But recently, this prison has (once ...

In reality, there is practically zero possibility that the famed prison would reopen to house more prisoners. Alcatraz—which ... theorist”—on the grounds of his legal and political support ...