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 ...

President Trump may want to turn Alcatraz into a prison, but San Francisco kids have their own ideas — less jail time and a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist attractions, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The penitentiary closed in ...

President's Trump's audacious plan to convert Alcatraz back to a maximum- security prison could come with a hefty price tag: $2 billion, administration sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Trump's plan ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist attraction that President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen as a prison in ...

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released. A ...

The Alcatraz East Crime Museum has debuted a temporary exhibit focused on retail theft that will be on display through March.

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

There was a time, not long ago, when Republicans and Democrats actually got along. They considered members of the other party adversaries, not enemies and, after sparring during the day over policy ...