The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

As if there was a need for more proof that President Donald Trump views his power as a way to indulge in grand gestures on ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

President Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco. How much did it cost to operate? Why ...

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Sunday that he is directing the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen ...

While Trump said Alcatraz prison — also known as "The Rock" — is a "symbol of law and order," such an idealistic emblem would be a realistic expense for taxpayers. History shows us that the ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

Yet Alcatraz, for all its cruelty and bad karma, has been a recurrent theme in American Jewish history and culture. When Alcatraz opened in 1934, Rabbi Rudolph Coffee, a pioneering chaplain in ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...