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.

Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms - How feasible the ...

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.

Donald Trump shared more details on his plan to reopen and expand the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Monday. The president, who said he wants to use the notorious prison to house "America's ...

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

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

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.

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

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.