The US president directed authorities to enlarge and rebuild the prison on an island off San Francisco. US President Donald ...

The prison, which housed infamous criminals such as Al Capone, closed in 1963 and is now one of San Francisco’s top tourist ...

People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island ... Island with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background (AP) The closure of the federal prison in 1963 was attributed to crumbling ...

The island fortress off San Francisco – mythologised as “inescapable” – has been closed for more than 60 years. It was shut ...

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) FILE - People tour the main cell house on Alcatraz Island ... the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labeled ...

Trump’s plan marks a stark shift in correctional policy, as Alcatraz has long been considered a relic of the past. The prison gained notoriety in the 20th century as a maximum-security institution ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard ... detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up ...