The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon ...

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and ...

The facility, which has been informally dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” has received heavy pushback and a legal challenge, but it has also been a boon for the national profile of both DeSantis ...

As President Donald Trump prepares to visit a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,’ some of his opponents are calling it cruel and ...

A retired Southwest Florida planner says there was no planning involved in Alligator Alcatraz, and that the site is one of the worst possible locations the state could have chosen for a migrant ...

In the rush to criminalize brown bodies and politicize fear, we are witnessing racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with California state Sen. Scott Wiener about Trump's call to reopen Alcatraz Prison. The island is now one of the National Park Services most popular sites.

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before. Locking down offenders in tiny cells on an island surrounded by ...

At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." ...

Opponents call ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ callous, political stunt, ‘DeSantis’ internment camp’ ActionNewsJax.com News Staff Tue, July 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM UTC ...