A proposal to convert Alcatraz Island back into a functioning federal prison is being criticized by criminal justice ...

Biologists had guessed coyote paddled a shorter distance to former prison in the San Francisco Bay earlier this year ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

New DNA evidence suggests the coyote's aquatic journey may have been over an even greater distance than previously thought ...

This is Trump's "stupidest initiative yet," Nancy Pelosi said, scoffing at the visit.

President Donald Trump first pushed the idea last year, directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to reopen and expand Alcatraz to detain what he called ...

San Francisco could be losing an iconic tourist spot. Donald Trump said on social media in May that he'd ordered federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison that held ...

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

President Donald Trump’s latest fantastic notion is to repurpose Alcatraz Island, one of the National Park Service’s most ...