President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San Francisco.

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

Alcatraz federal prison closed its doors and moved the remaining inmates to more modern facilities. Today, Alcatraz is one of San Francisco’s top tourist attractions. But now President Trump wants to ...

“The birds can go in and out. And they chose to come there.” ...

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

Another ‍prominent ‍Jewish ‍prisoner ‍at ‍Alcatraz ‍was ‍Meyer ‍Harris ‍“Mickey” ‍Cohen, ‍whose ‍parents ‍had ‍immigrated ‍to ...

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

ALCATRAZ IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR TOURISM IN SAN FRANCISCO. I’M RYAN CURRY. SO IT HAS NO UTILITIES. AND HISTORIANS ALSO SAY IT WOULD To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco ...

as well as contact information for a San Francisco attorney who had defended Alcatraz inmates in the past, the files say. The attorney told the FBI he never heard from Morris or the Anglins.