On July 16, days after the first media investigations about sparse criminal backgrounds among the population were published, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., characterized the migrants at Alligator Alcatraz ...

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.

This is one of many problems with illegal immigration: individuals are in our country without any way to verify their ...

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

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 ...

Hundreds of detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, do not have ...

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

Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz ," is part of a storied history involving Palm ...

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

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ...