Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

Two Trump administration officials visited the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Thursday, just two months after ...

A Kern County jury on Wednesday found an inmate guilty of first-degree murder and assault with force likely to cause great ...

An inmate at North Kern State Prison has been found guilty of murder in the death of his cellmate five years ago. A jury on ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a ...

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s ...

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

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Trump’s proposal to reopen the historic Alcatraz prison, calling it “the stupidest initiative put forth by this ...

Two federal officials are traveling to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz on Thursday, where they are expected to announce plans to reopen the dilapidated California state prison that closed ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.