Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

Minnesota lawmakers said the Federal Bureau of Prisons reversed a closure decision by the Biden administration.

Alcatraz has been a tourist attraction for decades, but following news that Trump wants to reopen it as a prison, many want to know why it closed.

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From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some ...

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.

Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence at several locations.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.

President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

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

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.