The notorious prison closed more than 60 years ago due to its crumbling infrastructure and high maintenance costs.

Trump is asking Congress for $152 million to launch his plan to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, something Nancy Pelosi ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to make California’s Alcatraz Island into an active prison again — feared by criminals.

Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz on July 17, the infamous federal prison island in the San Francisco Bay that President Donald Trump has said he wants to reopen to house the country's "most ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the Bay Area to tour Alcatraz Thursday morning as part of the controversial plan to reopen the federal ...

The president's new budget requests funding from Congress to convert the historic site into a working "state-of-the-art" ...

From notorious prison to Native protest site, Alcatraz reveals how power, punishment and resistance shaped California and ...

Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the isolated facility Chip Somodevilla/Getty; Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco ...