California Gov. Gavin Newsom reached out to the Trump administration on Monday with hopes that the two can pair up and create ...

Established in 1934, this maximum-security prison was situated on Alcatraz Island, just off the coast of San Francisco, California. It ceased operations in 1963 primarily due to its prohibitive costs ...

Among the almond orchards, grapevines and alfalfa fields alongside State Route 99 is California’s fastest growing city with ...

Former President Donald Trump has proposed reopening Alcatraz Island as a federal prison to address what he calls a "national ...

A California man who discarded his wife’s legs in a dumpster before assuming her identity to open credit cards and sell their ...

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists roaming the decayed historic grounds struggled to grasp the logic.

A 51-year-old California man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison after investigators tied him to multiple drug shipments of methamphetamine mailed from California to Nebraska.

As outlined on the BOP’s own website, USP (U.S. Penitentiary) Alcatraz closed in 1963, after federal officials realized it would be much less expensive to simply build a new prison elsewhere. The ...

President Donald Trump proposes rebuilding and reopening Alcatraz prison, a former maximum-security facility off the coast of San Francisco.

A federal judge said Monday there's no rule barring a plaintiff from making inconsistent or contradicting prior arguments ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

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