Here's what to know: Background: Alcatraz Island was originally the site of a military fort between 1850 and 1933, per the BOP. The "maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary" opened on the ...

With San Francisco in the background, Alcatraz Island is pictured on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco. [AP Photo/Noah Berger] President Trump announced May 4 that he is directing his ...

(AP Photo/Noah Berger) A visitor looks at the warden's house at Alcatraz Island on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) With San Francisco in the background, Alcatraz ...

President Trump expressed interest in reopening the infamous Alcatraz penitentiary Sunday after a South Florida TV station aired the 1979 Clint Eastwood film “Escape from Alcatraz.” ...

Trump's directive has revived debate over the prison that once held Al Capone. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that he's directing federal agencies to reopen the prison at Alcatraz after rebuilding and expanding the prison that was shuttered over 60 years ago and ...

Alcatraz Prison in the San Francisco Bay, viewed by helicopter on Monday. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before. Locking down offenders in tiny cells on an island surrounded by ...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he's ordered the federal government to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. However, that plan will likely require a massive ...

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The dramatic ...