Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

"It's not like he came out and was like, 'Hey, I'm Pope Leo XIV, he/him,'" Colin Jost jokes of the Chicago native ...

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

If the feds need new prisons, Congress should appropriate the money to build them. But leave Alcatraz as is, part of a ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

What some might not know about Alcatraz Island is that it was not just home to criminals; about 60 families of staff members ...