As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

President Trump has proposed turning Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary back into a working prison. The island prison off the ...

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

A proposal by President Trump to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is getting a lot of attention and reaction from tourists, Bay ...

Donald Trump has received pushback over his plans to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison due to the massive costs.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

Still, the Bureau of Prisons is taking Trump’s proposal seriously. U.S. Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III ...

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it ...