The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service for longer than it operated as a federal prison.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been a tourist spot for decades.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump said Monday he wants to ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

President Trump directs federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz prison for violent offenders. The historic island facility faces ...

The White House is backtracking after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he was renaming Veterans Day.

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.

Trump officials visited the infamous Alcatraz this week as part of a plan to return the island to a federal prison. David ...

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

(AP Photo/Noah Berger) NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island ...