Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California on Thursday ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are expected to visit the former federal prison, which the ...

Two Trump administration officials visited the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Thursday, just two months after ...

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

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the effort to reopen the dilapidated former prison is a "diversionary tactic." ...

DETENTION PREVENTION: While Donald Trump was in Florida touting the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget-related bill in California containing a little-known provision ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison even though it has been closed for more than 60 years. Its outsized place in the ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison even though it has been closed for more than 60 years. Its outsized place in the ...

Alcatraz was named "La Isla de los Alcatraces" or "The Island of the Pelicans" by Spanish explorer Lt. Juan Manuel de Ayala when he mapped San Francisco Bay in 1775, according to a history from ...