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Trump’s Alcatraz prison renewal plan strikes fear in local biz owner
Reese, the owner of Queen’s Louisiana Po-boy Cafe on the waterfront side of San Francisco’s Embarcadero, awoke to news that ...
Las Vegas Sun12h
Alcatraz was too expensive to keep open
At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...
Alcatraz 2.0: Fmr. FBI agent floats 'perfect' new prison site that would scare even most hardened criminals
A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...
How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison
Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...
Axios on MSN23h
Real to reel: The movies that made Alcatraz famous
With the Trump administration moving to reopen Alcatraz as a prison, it's time to revisit some of the movies that made the ...
When was Alcatraz built? Why was Alcatraz closed six decades ago?
President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...
Alcatraz: America's most infamous prison
Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...
Newsom calls President Trump's order to reopen Alcatraz a "colossally bad fiscal idea"
California Governor Gavin Newsom said nothing about President Trump's order to reopen and rebuild the notorious Alcatraz ...
Can Trump Make Alcatraz a Prison Again?
President Donald Trump has called for Alcatraz to be reopened as a modern maximum-security facility. Perched on an island ...
To reopen Alcatraz, you might have to rebuild the whole thing, historians say
To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco historians say you would need to start from scratch.