President Donald Trump has said he’d like to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous island lockup in the middle of San Francisco Bay, turning it into a maximum-security fortress.

Bill Baker was only 23 when he was handcuffed, shackled, and thrown on the back of a boat headed for Alcatraz, the infamous federal ...

For a century, Angel Island was utilized by the military because of its strategic location defending the Golden Gate. Today, ...

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The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand the famed Alcatraz Island prison, which lies off the coast of San ...

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

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

President Donald Trump recently chimed in on California's high-speed rail funding, the infamous Alcatraz prison and a 100% ...