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 ...

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.

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

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

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 ...