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

PERCHED on a rocky island a mile out to sea from San Francisco looms the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. One of the world’s most infamous prisons, it was built for the worst of the worst and ...

including gangster Al Capone, George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes, and Robert Stroud, who was better known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz." The prison opened on July 1, 1934, and closed 28 years later on ...

Trump's directive has revived debate over the prison that once held Al Capone ... transfers to Alcatraz, attracted by conditions that included single-occupancy cells. One of three cell tiers ...

US President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress ...

Falling asleep at night in his cell on the remote island ... The facility housed many violent criminals over its 30 years - Al Capone; Robert Stroud, a murderer known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz"; and ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...

including gangsters like George “Machine Gun” Kelly and Al Capone. Today’s Alcatraz is a tourist attraction, but President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he was ordering that the ...

Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” criminals. It's where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone ...

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is drawing new attention to the ...