On a one-day layover in San Francisco, London pilot Vojta Ocelak hadn’t planned on visiting Alcatraz on Monday, but after ...

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

Opened in Northern California in 1934, the infamous federal prison Alcatraz was shut down in 1963 (the year after Burt ...

"Absurd." This was the reaction of California State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat, and many other leaders of the Golden State, to Donald Trump's latest idea to reopen Alcatraz, the island ...

Several state and local Democrats issued muted reactions ... s proposal is real, feasible and necessary. In an interview on Fox News, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Alcatraz ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...