President Donald Trump's fascination with reopening Alcatraz, a dilapidated former state prison off the coast of San ...

President Trump directed federal officials to open Alcatraz for detainees. It's not the first time the topic has ... Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage teamed up on there in the 1996 movie "The Rock." ...

The "worst of the worst" once served their sentences here. Today, "the Rock" is one of San Francisco's biggest attractions. Could Alcatraz, now a museum twice as long as it was a prison, become a ...

For 29 years, Alcatraz — the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco — housed some of the nation's worst criminals: Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Birdman Robert Stroud. Today, 50 years ...

In 1981, Alcatraz Island was one of 14 sites evaluated as the Reagan Administration searched for a location to hold 10,000 to 20,000 Cuban detainees during the Mariel Boatlift.