Trump orders rebuilding and reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison in US Now an important tourist site, the California federal penitentiary has been shut for more than six decades. United States President Donald Trump says he has ordered officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a notorious federal prison based on a small island in the state of California that has been shut for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site on Sunday, Trump wrote he is “directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged... View Article