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

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

"My reaction was two words: water and sewage," she says ... Alcatraz Island is now a popular National Park Service site ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast of... What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous ...

On a one-day layover in San Francisco, London pilot Vojta Ocelak hadn’t planned on visiting Alcatraz on Monday, but after ...

Former inmate sounds off on Trump's proposal to reopen Alcatraz prison A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay ...

REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump wrote, decrying what he called a national crisis of “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal ...

ALCATRAZ – Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to once again house hardened criminals in the notorious former federal prison.

"My reaction was two words ... Justice Department's response to fears around public safety and organized crime." For federal prison officials, Alcatraz "served as an experiment" in handling ...

and to show the law-abiding public that the Federal Government was serious" about stopping rampant crime in the 1920s and 1930s." "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" the president said on Truth Social.