The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as a federal prison.

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.

President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison ...

President Trump has proposed turning Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary back into a working prison. The island prison off the ...

Alcatraz held less than 1 percent of the federal prison population of the time, with an average of about 260 to 275 inmates. There were more than a dozen escape attempts from Alcatraz during the ...

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...

The White House is backtracking after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he was renaming Veterans Day.

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on social media.