It's difficult to think of Alcatraz and not hear Sean Connery's accented voice proclaiming, "Welcome to the Rock!," but there ...

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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 ...

History shows us that the island operating as a prison had been too costly. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed more than 62 years ago. The maximum-security, minimum-privilege ...

Alcatraz was a maximum-security prison situated on a secluded San Francisco island in the Pacific Ocean. It had a reputation as the nation’s toughest and most feared federal penitentiary.