“The birds can go in and out. And they chose to come there.” ...

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Welcome! Here, come on in — single file, please. Yep, a little tighter everybody. Some of the inmates will be coming through ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

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

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At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

President Donald Trump has said he’d like to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous island lockup in the middle of San Francisco Bay, turning it into a maximum-security fortress.

as well as contact information for a San Francisco attorney who had defended Alcatraz inmates in the past, the files say. The attorney told the FBI he never heard from Morris or the Anglins.