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?

President Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the "worst of the worst" criminals, but Jolene Babyak remembers "The Rock" as a wonderful place to grow up.

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

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

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

The ranking comes as President Donald Trump considers converting the National Park back into a a federal prison.

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

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.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a federal prison at President Donald Trump's direction.

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 ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been mired in controversy since the contentious release of the Epstein Files last week, ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...