Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

A senior White House official said Friday that President Trump’s request to reopen Alcatraz at a reported $2 billion price ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

While in Minnesota, Chauvin was held in isolation at the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights for his own protection. However, isolation is usually reserved as a prison punishment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is dismissing renewed efforts to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison after U.S.

At the maximum-security Minnesota state prison where Chauvin had been held, he was mainly kept in solitary confinement for his own protection, Nelson wrote in court documents last year.

A visit to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials was part of President Donald ...

Alcatraz Island is located 1.5 miles off shore from San Francisco. After its discovery, the island served as a Civil War fortress and military prison before housing the maximum-security prison ...

Baird, who started with the federal Bureau of Prisons in 1989 as a case manager at a federal prison in Connecticut, retired in 2016 as a warden at the medium-security U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Ill.

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has announced that Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, died on May 11.