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

Just hours before President Donald Trump announced his plans to direct the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz Federal Prison, the iconic 1979 Clint Eastwood movie "Escape From Alcatraz ...

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 Alcatraz for the “dregs of society.” ...

Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison The men who broke out ... and historians have expressed serious doubts whether the plan is feasible. "To be frank, at first I thought it was ...

Despite President Donald Trump's administration confirming that a plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz is already underway, San Francisco politicians are dismissing it as an unserious "distraction." ...

In the hours since President Donald Trump declared his plans to reopen a “substantially enlarged” Alcatraz to “house ... said she viewed Trump’s plan as “asinine.” ...

Trump told reporters on Sunday night while returning to the White House from Florida that his Alcatraz plan was “just an ... it will just make us worse off. Reopening Alcatraz is like that.