From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

One month after President Donald Trump toured Alligator Alcatraz and the first inmates arrived, WLRN has compiled a timetable ...

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

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

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

So it is with the Florida concentration camp for migrant detainees known as “ Alligator Alcatraz,” which was at first a gleeful MAGAsphere nickname and is now what this jury-rigged assemblage ...

An advisor to the Miccosukee Tribe says Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening his legacy as an environmentalist by leading the way on Alligator Alcatraz.

Environmental groups sued to block the detention center, calling it "not only cruel," but also a threat to the "ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect.” ...

A fire is under investigation after multiple buildings were destroyed at the Miccosukee Tribe's reservation in Miami.

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some consider America's most notorious criminals.

Those historical crimes paved the way for a more recent example, the infamous concentration camps of the 1940s in which 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them native-born U.S. citizens, were ...