An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over the last few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, dozens of escapes, the free flow of guns, drugs and other contraband, and severe understaffing that has hampered responses to emergencies.

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

It has been more than six decades since Alcatraz, which sits in San Francisco Bay, operated as a prison. Today it is best known as a damp, frigid and nostalgic staple of tourist packages and children’s field trips.