Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...

It never reached its capacity of 336 inmates and at any given time held less than 1 per cent of the federal prison population, the BOP says. After it shuttered because of operating costs ...

President Donald Trump announced he wants to reopen Alcatraz, the prison near San Francisco that was featured in prominent movies and held famous criminals. The move was unexpected and shocked many.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison was summarily rejected on Monday by some visitors to the tourist site in San Francisco Bay.

Katie Hobbs because it would save money and the state no longer needed the beds to house a dipping prison population. The closure was a hit for Marana, a town about 20 miles north of Tucson with a ...

Inspectors found about 38% of mandatory drugs tests came back positive last year and a survey of the prison population suggested about 23% had developed a drug problem while incarcerated at the site.

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