Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

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

Trump's aides released just 20% of the transcripts of his speeches and interactions with the press over his first 100 days, excluding many of his most unhinged comments ...

As calls to reopen Alcatraz make headlines, Mexico's prison island tells a different story – of sea turtles, green parrots ...

US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was ...

In 1955, Hopkins was sent to Alcatraz - a prison on an isolated island off the coast of San Francisco - after causing trouble ...

the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” — where ... and the notion of the forbidding island prison had a long and easily summoned history in the public imagination. When the federal penitentiary ...

but was transferred to Alcatraz in 1934 after allegations that Capone was receiving cushy treatment by manipulating the prison system, according to History.com. Capone was released from Alcatraz ...

The postcard addressed to “Warden, Alcatraz Prison” turned up June 18 ... “You would be losing a lot of history there.” CNN’s FJ Feng and Alex Matthews contributed to this report.

As if there was a need for more proof that President Donald Trump views his power as a way to indulge in grand gestures on ...

Alcatraz is in the bay and visible from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for its years as a federal prison, from 1934-63, but its history is much longer. President Millard ...