Business Insider

JFB Construction Holdings Executes Contract to Design Build “Prison Island” Franchise ...

Lantana, Fla., Sept. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JFB Construction Holdings (Nasdaq: JFB), a real estate development and construction company focused on hospitality, commercial, industrial, and ...
NPR

Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Here's a look at how it got its name

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape by inmates Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin. The dramatic ...
NBC Connecticut

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
Yahoo

‘I Grew Up on Alcatraz—This Is What Living on the Notorious Prison Island Was Really ...

President Donald Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wonderful place to grow ...