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

R. Bruce Anderson writes that whatever your political position may be, taking pleasure in the misery of other humans is ...

If America is indeed a Christian nation, then even the illegal aliens being held in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must be afforded access to priests and to the sacraments.

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 ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

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

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz described limited access to water and fresh air, saying they received only one meal a day and that the lights are on 24/7.

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a ...

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 ...