President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison ... a decade after it was closed as a prison. The park service says the island gets more than 1 million visitors ...

Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Alcatraz Island, long closed as a federal prison and now one of San Francisco's most visited tourist sites, may see a revival ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

Alcatraz Federal ... closed in 1963 after nearly 30 years in operation primarily due to high operating costs and the deteriorating condition of the facility, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Alcatraz closed in 1963 due to high operating costs, which were almost three times higher than other federal prisons ... according the BOP website. Several 2024 metrics show violent crime has ...

The name Alcatraz still elicits thoughts about the shady characters kept in isolating (and poor) conditions that made the former federal prison infamous. Alcatraz was nicknamed “The Rock” for ...

Several prisoners attempted ... they were sent back to another federal prison to complete their sentence. The prison on Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963, because it was too expensive to continue ...