Trump’s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary is the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and ...

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (May 4) that he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen ...

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) joins 'Squawk box' to discuss the state of the Republican reconciliation package ...

The island fortress entered American cultural lore after a 1962 escape by three inmates, notably Frank Morris, which became ...

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.

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump has called for the reopening and expansion of the infamous prison, Alcatraz. In a post on ...

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

President Trump confirmed that he had pressed President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico to allow U.S. troops to travel across the ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...