Two hundred fifty years is a big milestone, but any story about exploration comes with baggage: colonialism and the fatal ...

Alligator Alcatraz' is described by critics as a legally murky, harsh detention site with minimal safeguards, concerns over ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

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

President Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist attractions — back into a high-security federal prison for violent ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

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?

The Trump administration is pushing to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, a move that would require repealing national park ...

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.

President Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist attractions — back into a high-security federal prison for violent ...