President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which ...

Legal experts told Fox News on Monday that President Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz off the California coast but ...

That could all change again if President Donald Trump gets his way. Trump wrote Sunday on social media that he is directing the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department and other agencies to ...

Even if Alcatraz, which was built to hold somewhat more than 300 inmates, is resurrected and expanded, it’ll hold only a ...

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been ...

The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as a federal prison.

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.