President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist the deteriorating facility should be reopened.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

( NewsNation) — Former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz says reviving and reopening Alcatraz, ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a ...

The Florida governor relied on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors, and bypass laws and regulations.

In 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western U.S. Military Prison, ... The occupation attracted national media coverage and support from various groups, ...

“We didn’t have cable news, but you had all the media very fascinated with this case.” Then, the first bit of evidence the guys might have survived appeared. But it did not wash up on shore. It ...

Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say. Florida’s hastily constructed detention camp in the Everglades, which began processing immigrants late this week, has ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats. On June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and ...

Emails show that while southwest Florida officials were still chasing rumors about the sprawling “Alligator Alcatraz” ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...