Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Alcatraz

Reopening Alcatraz Is an Expensive, Unnecessary Pipe Dream

The Bureau of Prisons is struggling to staff the prisons it currently operates. Reopening Alcatraz would be unrealistic and redundant.

Reason

Reopening the Rock: Trump’s bold plan for Alcatraz

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Everything you need to know about Trump’s bizarre plan to reopen Alcatraz

Trump has directed officials to reopen a ‘substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ prison on Alcatraz Island - but is it really viable?

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Trump orders reopening of Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’

Plan to expand and reuse long-shuttered penitentiary off San Francisco described as ‘not serious’ by Nancy Pelosi

The Guardian - US

Trump's War on Foreign Films

Plus: Alcatraz reopening, Bukele corruption scandal, assisted suicide, and more...

Reason

Trump makes claims about judges as he explains Alcatraz reopening order

Donald Trump slammed what he called the leniency of “radical judges,” as he vowed to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous island prison near San Francisco.

The Independent UK

Trump says he wants to reopen and expand infamous Alcatraz prison

The notorious jail on a hard-to-reach island off San Francisco has been closed for more than 60 years.

Euronews

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Trump orders rebuilding and reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison in US

Now an important tourist site, the California federal penitentiary has been shut for more than six decades.

Al Jazeera

Trump Orders Alcatraz Prison Re-opening, X Users Blast 'Psychotic Emperor Phase'

President Trump on Sunday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, which has been closed since the 1960s, but many X users are against the infamous prison's revival.

International Business Times

Trump Orders Rebuilding And Reopening Of Defunct US Prison Alcatraz

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago.

International Business Times

Donald Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

US President says facility, which once held famed gangster Al Capone, will 'house America's most ruthless and violent offenders’

Evening Standard

Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

The Independent UK

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years

The Independent UK

The pet I’ll never forget: my giant stick insect, who ruled her empire like a spiny queen

While her underlings attempted to escape from their see-through Alcatraz, there was little to interest her outside the tank. That may have saved her from death by cat

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

California dreamin': why San Francisco to Los Angeles should be your next fly drive holiday with kids

From e-biking over the Golden Gate bridge to hiking to the Hollywood sign, with dolphin spotting and rollercoaster rides in-between, Elliot Wagland discovered that a road trip on the route 101 offered all the family fun his brood had dreamed of

The Independent UK

Louise Minchin: from the breakfast sofa to Alcatraz’s shark-infested waters

The former ‘BBC Breakfast’ host set out to find the world’s most courageous female adventurers for her book, ‘Fearless’. In this extract, she finds herself in the slipstream with two daring young swimmers

The Week

Bibby Stockholm: the UK’s own Alcatraz?

Arriving on the Bibby Stockholm was like “entering Alcatraz prison”, according to one of the first asylum seekers to board the controversial barge.

Daily Mirror

Inside abandoned 'Alcatraz' home to murderers including killer who butchered 100

The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

'I ventured into Alcatraz after dark and was terrified by what I saw and heard'

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara, the hosts of Watcher Production's "Ghost Files," went to the prisonoff the coast of San Francisco to investigate the rumours of it being haunted

Daily Mirror

Inside maximum security prison ISIS Beatle will go to - from where nobody escaped

ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is set for decades inside the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' when he is sentenced today. Prisoners held there survive in near-continuous solitary confinement

Chicago Tribune

Recovered quadriplegic from Chicago prepares to swim in San Francisco Bay to raise awareness of paralysis. ‘Doesn’t surprise me a bit,’ says mom

CHICAGO — From the beach where he swims on Lake Michigan, Rob Heitz can point out the green facade of the rehabilitation hospital where he began his recovery journey after being paralyzed from the neck down 19 years ago.

Daily Mirror

Mystery of Alcatraz inmates' escape may FINALLY be solved after 70 years

Marking the 60th anniversary, the mystery could finally be solved once and for all as DNA testing will reveal if the Anglins went on to father children in South America

Daily Mirror

Three prisoners feared dead after escaping Alcatraz 60 years ago could still be alive

Pictures by a forensic artist of Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin have been released by the US Marshals Service who are still hunting the men, 60 years after they escaped from Alcatraz prison

The Independent UK

US marshals release sketches of three men who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960s and could still be at large

Frank Morris, as well as brothers Clarence and John Anglin, escaped from the famed, now-defunct island prison in San Francisco Bay, on 11 June, 1962

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Bureau of Prisons

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.