It wouldn't change much and it would cost too much — but the point would be to create a spectacle of degradation.

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

U.S. President Donald Trump claims he wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California ...

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

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

Donald Trump's surprising directive to revive Alcatraz, the infamous island prison, has sparked widespread debate. Inspired ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours ...

The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the ...

On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a ...

President Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz as a functioning prison is a reflection of his political instincts and personal ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie ...