Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” ...

A correctional officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating ...

The White House will host American Russian former ballerina Ksenia Karelina roughly a month after the Trump administration ...

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

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

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

The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars ...

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

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

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections described the incident as a "premeditated stabbing" targeting three corrections ...