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

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

The infamous San Francisco prison shut down in 1963 is being looked at by several federal agencies to possibly be reopened. A ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

The FBI’s investigation of the escape uncovered an “ingenious” plan devised over several ... other Federal prison,” according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. After it closed ...

California criminal justice advocates are warning that the state's closed prisons are vulnerable to federal takeover, as ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

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 ...

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons ... the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963, just 29 years after it opened ...

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

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.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has ordered several agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, an infamous federal penitentiary that closed in ... Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department ...