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

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

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

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, ...

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

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

Five decades after it closed, it still captures the public's imagination ... at Alcatraz to be better than other Federal ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has ordered several agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, an infamous federal penitentiary that closed in ... Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Prisons o perates at least 120 federal institutions and manages ... of its staff members in December that it planned to close several facilities. Alcatraz closed as a penitentiary ...