President Donald Trump's fascination with reopening Alcatraz, a dilapidated former state prison off the coast of San Francisco, seems motivated more by symbolism than necessity and could risk becoming the administration's biggest boondoggle.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a federal prison at President Donald Trump's direction.

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his Cabinet members to see it for themselves last week.

A 21-year-old detainee spoke out about his living conditions and his fear from inside Alligator Alcatraz, Florida's migrant detention facility in the Everglades.

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

Riley Gaines reacts on OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast to the social media comments she received after she swam around Alcatraz while pregnant.

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and violent offenders."

Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the isolated facility

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.

Donald Trump's plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been supported by his loyalists, Pam Bondi and Doug Burgum, despite the fact that the prison was shut down 62 years ago due to its dilapidated state and high costs.