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.

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

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

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over the last few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison ... a decade after it was closed as a prison. The park service says the island gets more than 1 million visitors ...

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 ...

Alcatraz Federal ... closed in 1963 after nearly 30 years in operation primarily due to high operating costs and the deteriorating condition of the facility, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which was shut in 1963.

The name Alcatraz still elicits thoughts about the shady characters kept in isolating (and poor) conditions that made the former federal prison infamous. Alcatraz was nicknamed “The Rock” for ...

Several of Alcatraz's prisoners ... they were sent back to another federal prison to complete their sentence. The prison on Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963, because it was too expensive to ...