The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them

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?

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Reabrir Alcatraz is such a typically trumpian idea that it's a miracle that the president hasn't tried it before. Locking criminals in tiny cells on an island surrounded by turbulent and murderous currents would feed President Donald Trump's hunger for sexist spectacle. Years after his closing in 1963, the prison became an icon of pop culture, with a tradition inspired by infamous stories of Mafia inmates like …

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion backlog of needed repairs.

The U.S. President wants to rebuild Alcatraz's rotting buildings into a high-security prison, which brings him a lot of ridicule.

Trump's call to reopen Alcatraz falls flat with tourists, who ask: Why and how?

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic site struggled to see the logic.

Alcatraz historian who lived on the island weighs in on reopening plan

Historian Jolene Babyak shares her experience of living at Alcatraz as a child with other families and outlines some of the issues at the prison island like no water, no sewage treatment, and disrepair of the aging buildings that would make President Trump’s plan of reopening difficult.