Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

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

President Trump's suggestion to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ignores decades of data, deadly mistakes, and public ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

Comes mutterings about San Francisco’s tough prison Alcatraz coming back. The famous “Rock,” as the impregnable jail was called, is an island in tough surrounding water making escapes near ...

Alcatraz was also known as a prison that no one escaped from. Trump wants to prove to the public that he is serious about dealing with our country's most dangerous, violent criminals by putting ...

By backing an advisory committee, Gorell is upholding the foundational principles of our constitutional republic: representative government, civic oversight, and public engagement. Cummings ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison for incarcerating “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders” has all the hallmarks of his cruel ...