Riley Gaines defended her decision to swim from Alcatraz to shore at 31 weeks pregnant, addressing backlash on her podcast after completing the challenge alongside Navy SEALs.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the isolated facility

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his Cabinet members to see it for themselves last week.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a federal prison at President Donald Trump's direction.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.

Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of the island facility in the San Francisco Bay.

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been supported by his loyalists, Pam Bondi and Doug Burgum, despite the

The Trump administration is pushing to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, a move that would require repealing national park protections and transferring control from the Department of the Interior to the Bureau of Prisons.

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.