According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million in tourism revenue annually.

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

The sprawling site is in disrepair, with peeling paint and rusting locks and cell bars. Signs reading “Area closed for your ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal prison facility. The former fortress in San Francisco Bay, which operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 ...