Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the entirety of Alcatraz’s operation as a federal penitentiary, grasped the ...

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

It’s a move that feels less about public safety and more about raw assertion of power—an unmistakable message that control matters more than correction, and fear is more useful than fairness. Trump’s ...

Therefore, when he speaks of reopening Alcatraz as a prison, that is exactly what he is doing. For him, Alcatraz is a symbol of what he believes is law and order. So if it were to become a prison ...

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million in tourism revenue annually.

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...