Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal government reopen it?

Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Washington’s abandoned McNeil Island prison closed in 2011 — could it return to federal control? The News Tribune asked.

Located west of Steilacoom in Puget Sound, Pierce County’s McNeil Island measures about seven square miles; its 27-acre prison opened as a federal penitentiary in 1875, 14 years before ...

Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Washington’s abandoned McNeil Island prison closed in 2011 — could it return to federal control? The News Tribune asked.