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

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has ordered several agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, an infamous federal penitentiary that closed in the 1960s and has since become a popular tourist ...

The White House is backtracking after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he was renaming Veterans Day.

PHOENIX — 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. On Friday, officials with the ...

The Bureau of Prisons o perates at least 120 federal institutions and ... in December that it planned to close several facilities. Alcatraz closed as a penitentiary in 1963, according to the ...