Staff from the Federal Bureau of Prisons visited the infamous site this week under instructions from Donald Trump ...

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 ...

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

the government closed Alcatraz because it was too expensive to run — costing three times as much as most other federal prisons. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, in a statement posted Sunday to social ...

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

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 ...

“That is why, today," he said, “I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the ... The agency last year closed several facilities, in part to cut costs, but is also in the process ...

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.