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 says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

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.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

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 ...

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

The audit from the California Office of the Inspector General warns lives could be lost if prisons don’t improve their ...