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 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 ...

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

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

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular ...

On Sunday, two men stood in front of Alligator Alcatraz to show support for the detention center. One held a sign that read, “Welcome to Paradise. Don’t feed the animals.” T ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after touring a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Ochopee, Florida ...