President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

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

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...

Legal experts told Fox News on Monday that President Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz off the California coast but ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to turn Alcatraz back into a prison.

That could all change again if President Donald Trump gets his way. Trump wrote Sunday on social media that he is directing the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department and other agencies to ...

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

The jail would 'house America's most ruthless and violent offenders,' Trump said, as he ordered his government to re-open and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison in San Francisco ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living prisoners of Alcatraz, gave an interview to the BBC in which he commented on Donald ...

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

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.

Trump announced plans Sunday to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to house "America's most ruthless and violent Offenders." ...