Alcatraz isn’t being revived because it works, but because it intimidates. It has nothing to do with criminal justice, and ...

Alcatraz welcomes 1.2 million visitors a year and generates over $60 million in revenue for the National Park Service.

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The MAGAsphere is reeling as Republican Senator Thom Tillis seems likely to tank Trump’s nominee for D.C. attorney due to his ...

Karen Conti, Chicago trial attorney, joins Bob Sirott to talk about why a Washington D.C. judge struck down an executive ...

If President Donald Trump's plans to reopen Alcatraz as a prison falls through, one former FBI agent claims he has ...

Even Elon Musk would have to chainsaw the idea of having to send ships of materials and laborers — and eventually prisoners ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – launched one of the ...

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.” ...

Judge Benjamin Settle in Washington issued a nationwide injunction in March, ruling there’s “no claim and no evidence that ...

As President Donald Trump's administration takes its first steps to open the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Mayor ...