It eventually closed in 1963 after operating for nearly 30 years, but was reopened to the public as a museum ten years later, according to BOP. Here's what to know about Alcatraz, including why it ...

President Trump's suggestion to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ignores decades of data, deadly mistakes, and public ...

Himmelman is a writer currently at work on a book about Alcatraz. When President Trump ... had a long and easily-summoned history in the public imagination. When the federal penitentiary opened ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco ’s notorious island prison, has ...

But any serious policy on public safety must begin with one simple truth: we cannot incarcerate our way out of social failure. A reopened Alcatraz would be a billion-dollar monument to mass ...

What most people know about Alcatraz ... National Park Service for display to the public at the island, Feb. 10, 1978.

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast of... What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous ...

Letters include how public confidence in elections must be actively maintained; and a suggestion for the first inmate if ...

Alcatraz Prison in the San Francisco Bay ... Only last week, Trump called for defunding public broadcasting. Now he’s a fan. For all we know, the Eastwood pic might also be the germ of Trump ...

Alcatraz was not closed in ... deadly mistakes, and public reckoning with the failures of punitive incarceration.