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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Comes mutterings about San Francisco’s tough prison Alcatraz coming back. The famous “Rock,” as the impregnable jail was called, is an island in tough surrounding water making escapes near ...

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 ...

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

It’s a move that feels less about public safety and more about raw assertion of power—an unmistakable message that control matters more than correction, and fear is more useful than fairness. Trump’s ...

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 ...