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

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 ...

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

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

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

The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.

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

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

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.