As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.

The last prisoners to be held there were released in 1963. Trump says the new Alcatraz facility will be "substantially enlarged" and will "house America's most ruthless and violent offenders." ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for ...

It wouldn’t be the first time it’s been done: After Alcatraz closed, it was succeeded by two supermax prisons: “New Alcatraz” in Marion, Illinois, and the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” in Florence, ...

It doesn't make for good TV. But unless the Trump administration wants to spend a mountain of taxpayer money, the only people staffing the new Alcatraz, if it's ever finished, will be the ghosts ...

Alcatraz got notorious gangsters like Al Capone ... If we don’t need a showy new name-brand prison to demonstrate to offenders that we mean business, we do need more jail space.

When Mr. Trump mentions Alcatraz in the same sentence as Sing Sing, a similarly ancient prison in New York, and then refers to “the movies,” the jig is mostly up. He likes Alcatraz ...