President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

President Trump's suggestion to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ignores decades of data, deadly mistakes, and public ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco ’s notorious island prison, has ...

The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board writes that Trump “should ditch his Alcatraz fantasy and build a new prison at an existing ...

George Will finally, maybe, has a grasp on the art of the deal. He’s been watching President Donald Trump negotiate for peace ...

By backing an advisory committee, Gorell is upholding the foundational principles of our constitutional republic: representative government, civic oversight, and public engagement. Cummings ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast of... What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous ...