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

The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl Ray and James "Whitey" Bulger.

History shows us that the island operating as a prison had been too costly. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed more than 62 years ago. The maximum-security, minimum-privilege ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

Arizona has cut a deal to sell the shuttered private prison it owns north of Tucson to the Utah-based company that ran it ...

Now is the time to demand our legislators support keeping correctional facilities free from the corruption of privatization.

was a maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison opened in 1934 to deal with the "most incorrigible inmates in federal prisons," the Bureau of Prisons says. Before that, dating back to the 1850s ...

The Utah-based company that ran Arizona State Prison-Marana before it closed in 2023 is set to buy the facility for $15 ...

Alcatraz federal prison was opened in 1934 as a “maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary” to house “the most incorrigible inmates.” The prison was located on Alcatraz Island ...