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Key to the marketing ploy underpinning Florida's detention camp in the Everglades is the alligator, portrayed by Republican ...

Immediate action was taken to separate and remove the detainee in accordance with federal protocols,” said Stephanie Hartman, ...

A tribal leader told Newsweek that he and members in the Big Cypress National Preserve of Florida, which is adjacent to the ...

Hollywood celebrated 50th anniversary of summer blockbuster 'Jaws,' which instilled terror in the public about sharks, ...

The group has received reports this week that detainees from the island have been sent to the Florida facility and allege ...

An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S. All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, ...

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.

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

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes ...