The educators plan to accommodate students aged 12-20 at the former prison before the end of 2025, with 50 families having expressed interest this week, as well as using it to house creative ...

President Trump said Sunday he is directing his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island off San Francisco, California. In a post on his Truth Social ...

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Walrath ...

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 ...

Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even "rehab". There was no one homogenous view, but there is also not one type of prisoner here - it is home to both ...

President Trump said he directed the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI and Homeland Security to reopen and expand the historical prison. Photo: Fred Greaves/Reuters ...

Calvin Crew was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza in February 2022 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024.

An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally.

Boatloads of tourists traipsed around Alcatraz Island on Monday morning and peered into tiny prison cells, learning about the most notorious inmates who stayed there — and the ones who tried to ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...