Brian Kaneda, a coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, a prison abolition advocacy group, told SFGATE that Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz is a “logistical black hole.” ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

The San Francisco island prison known as “the Rock” was famous for its notorious inmates and its near-inescapability.

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

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...