President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious penitentiary on an island in San ...

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

Federal Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall III describes what needs to be done to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on 'My View with Lara Trump.' ...

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

Alcatraz Penitentiary was originally built as a U.S. Army Stockade from 1910-1912. The Justice Department acquired the U.S.

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate ...

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