At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

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

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

What some might not know about Alcatraz Island is that it was not just home to criminals; about 60 families of staff members ...

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious penitentiary on an island in San Francisco ...

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 ...

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 ...