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Bondi tours Alcatraz as part of Trump's plan to reopen former prison
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...
Riley Gaines silences critics after completing daring 1.25-mile Alcatraz swim while pregnant
Riley Gaines defended her decision to swim from Alcatraz to shore at 31 weeks pregnant, addressing backlash on her podcast ...
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Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz is at odds with honoring island’s Indigenous history
After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...
Timeline: When was Alcatraz closed and is Trump trying to reopen the prison?
Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...
Trump Admin Prepares to Reopen Alcatraz 62 Years After Its Closure: See How the Notorious Island Prison Looks Today
Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the ...
Attorney General Bondi visits Alcatraz as Trump floats idea of reopening the former federal prison
Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes ...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration eyes Alcatraz reopening to house nation’s ‘worst of the worst’
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...
Bondi, Burgum tour Alcatraz as Trump wants to ‘renovate and reopen’ notorious island prison
Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of ...
Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?
Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay ...
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When did Alcatraz close? A look at the notorious prison's history
From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some ...
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Burgum, Bondi Tour Alcatraz to Launch Trump Plan to Reopen Site as Federal Prison
The Trump administration is pushing to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, a move that would require repealing national park ...
Trump’s fascination with Alcatraz is more symbolic than rooted in reality
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.