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

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

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

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 ...

Trump Administration officials are allegedly poised to make an Alcatraz reopening statement after a visit to "The Rock" today ...

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.

In May, President Donald Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist ...

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 is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was ...

In May, President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ...

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