President Trump directed federal officials to open Alcatraz for detainees. it's not the first time the topic has cropped up.

The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

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

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison ...

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical ...

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday that he is ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and ...

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which ...