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

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

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

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 arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist ...

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

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is not holding his breath for the Trump administration to follow through on reopening ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff expressed skepticism about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison following U.S.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is dismissing renewed efforts to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison after U.S.

Embattled U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials arrived in San Francisco on an expected mission to ...