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 ...

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

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

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

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

Alligator Alcatraz is the symbol of their crusade, and it could hardly be more American. It channels this country’s long history of paranoia, xenophobia and systematic exclusion through the grotesque ...

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...

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