Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

A sicko ex-doctor is now costing Columbia University over $1 billion after a new sex abuse settlement with nearly 600 victims was inked Monday. Columbia University agreed to the record-breaking ...

Cognitive Decline? Trump Spews a Word Salad to Explain Alcatraz Idea. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to ...

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

It represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order,” President ...

The island that once housed some of the country's most notorious names has been a popular tourist draw for decades.

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

An Albuquerque man with nine prior felony convictions was sentenced to federal prison for robbing a local Whataburger at ...

President Trump said on Sunday that he's directed government departments to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz. Why it matters: One ...

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

Reopening the prison, which closed in 1963, is yet another Trump proposal that seems ripped from a Nicolas Cage movie.

Yet the fact that the service is currently streaming the three best-known movies about the old San Franscisco island prison ...