Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

Democrats and Republicans alike scoff at the idea of reopening the island prison that has served as a tourist attraction for ...

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

After initially calling Trump’s Alcatraz order “distraction day in Washington,” Newsom said Monday that state officials ...