The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.

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

While Trump said Alcatraz prison — also known as “The Rock” — is a “symbol of law and order,” such an idealistic emblem would be a realistic expense for taxpayers. History shows us ...

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected ...

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...