President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, taken on May 5, 2025. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal prison facility. The former fortress in San Francisco Bay, which operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 ...

A National Park Service staff walks down the stairs as a colony of Brandt's cormorants hang out on the structure’s roof recreation yard at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday ...

(CNN) – Many are still reacting after President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco. What some might not know about the island is ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...