Trump has voiced plans to reopen and enlarge the notorious prison, Alcatraz. Will it actually happen? Here's what to know.

The island fortress entered American cultural lore after a 1962 escape by three inmates, which became an inspiration for the film "Escape from Alcatraz" starring Clint Eastwood. Social media users ...

Sceptics dismissed the idea, noting that he could have been inspired by what he saw on TV. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit prison in San Francisco Bay just as the local PBS affiliate was airing the ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

which is a social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group, "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ." Trump is now directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains ... “Of course, it became the hottest thing in the media at the time,” retired FBI agent John ...

Donald Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz was mocked online Monday by people who suggested the US president got the idea from watching TV. The order to resurrect the once-notorious island prison in ...