Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay that the Trump administration is seeking to re-open for prisoners. Alcatraz ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

"This is a terrific facility, needs a lot of work, but no one has been known to escape from Alcatraz and survive." In May, Mr. Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was directing the ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California on Thursday, just two months after President Trump ordered the reopening of the ...

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press May 6, 2025 May 6, 2025Updated 16 mins ago 0 ...