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

Trump's Alcatraz directive is yet another challenge for the Bureau of Prisons as it struggles to fix lingering problems while responding to the president's priorities on incarceration and immigrant ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal ... three times that of a comparable mainland facility. Challenges include structural decay, the need for ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ... parade on Trump’s birthday The revival of an old program delegates Trump immigration ...

Others questioned spending billions on a high-security prison while existing facilities are being closed due to similar infrastructure challenges. But for Trump, the symbolism of Alcatraz still ...

The cancellation of grants to states would almost certainly be challenged in the courts, where the Trump administration has had some success in blocking, at least temporarily, challenges to its ...

Last week, the president rambled incoherently when asked to explain why he wanted to reopen Alcatraz ... Cortez’s “Medicare for All” 2021 revival, which would have created a single-payer ...

President Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz as a functioning prison is a reflection of his political instincts and personal tastes, even as it is a long shot to come to fruition. Alcatraz ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Alcatraz Island, long closed as a federal prison and now one ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, taken on May 5, 2025. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of ...