Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

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

Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz, the infamous prison island that Trump has said he wants to reopen.

Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of ...

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." ...

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 ...

No Peace on the Rock. Alcatraz Has Long Been Free of Prisoners, but the Place Still Captivates. By John M. Glionna. April 22, 2007 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Share. Add to your saved stories.

For much of its cold, damp, bitter prison life, Alcatraz was a place you’d kill to leave, and many an inmate tried. They plotted elaborate escapes, took shivs to cell walls, mapped routes ...

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.