Now, with the announcement that President Trump plans to reopen the infamous jail which closed in 1963, fans have had a strong reaction after Hartman's iconic turn as an Alcatraz tour guide in ...

According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million ...

A former inmate of Alcatraz who once swept the floors of ... He's just trying to get a point across to the public.' When Trump declared he had 'directed the Bureau of Prisons, together with ...

Federal Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall III expressed confidence in the viability of using Alcatraz again, stating that he is “really excited” about putting the facility back to use.

Filmed in public, we made the most cringe-inducing call out loud — and everyone around us heard it. From shocked looks to silent laughter, these real reactions say it all. Visuals: Public ...

The initiative, part of a broader "Grading for Equity" plan to roll out in the fall, is stirring concern among educators, ...

5. Tourist hotspot After it shuttered in the 1960s due to operating costs, Alcatraz Island became part of the National Parks network and opened to the public in 1973.

The day I visited Alcatraz, the sky was blue, the sun shone and seagulls were abundant outside the decaying, rusted-out hulk of a former prison. Inside, “the Rock” was cold, dank and bleary.

Always turned on by his most extreme ideas, Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. He apparently got this twisted idea after watching Don Siegel’s 1979 film with Clint Eastwood ...

Alcatraz Prison was shut down more than six decades ago. US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was shut down more ...

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

A body doesn’t even have to be real to provoke outrage. This idea is distilled in the public reaction to Grounded in the Stars, Thomas J. Price’s bronze sculpture installed in April 2025 at ...