( NewsNation) — Florida’s attorney general is proposing an immigrant detention center that he has dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.

Daring departure on this day in 1962 still has mysterious conclusion. The island made an easy transition to tourist stop.

In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing legislation to reform California's prison ... in a cell the size of a closet ...

Several notorious criminals with Kansas connections served time in Alcatraz ... he was walking in the prison exercise yard at Leavenworth and took them back to his cell to care for them, said ...

On May 28, 1875, a Modoc man from Southern Oregon died at Alcatraz. He was one of the first Native Americans sentenced to the island prison. Long before visitors toured Alcatraz or famous inmates ...

There are solitary-confinement cells ... prison. One night, when the woman’s cellmates are asleep, she tries them. The resulting pain is excruciating, as is the story. “Finally, a foetus the ...

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Cost is a central issue. When the federal government shut down Alcatraz in 1963, it cited high operating expenses—three times more than a typical prison—as a primary reason. "I was like ...