The president’s suggestion to reopen the island prison-turned-museum just serves to move attention away from the issues that ...

What's really behind President Trump's order to reopen Alcatraz as a prison? It's about empowering authorities to act without ...

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Reaction continued to pour in on Monday in response to President Trump's idea to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

ALCATRAZ – Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to once again house hardened criminals in the notorious former federal prison.

“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump blared on Truth Social just before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal ...

US President Donald Trump has said he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that was shut six decades ago ...

US President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island. In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday ...

President Donald Trump has said he’d like to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous island lockup in the middle of San Francisco Bay, turning it into a maximum-security fortress. Today, Alcatraz is a top ...

It’s not clear if Trump watched his local outlet’s airing of “Escape from Alcatraz,” though his press conference seemed to allude to its premise. The movie is based on a true story about a ...