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President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ruthless and ...
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.
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 ...
At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." ...
Since opening earlier this month in the marshy Florida Everglades region, Alligator Alcatraz — named after a notorious federal prison off the coast of San Francisco — has drawn mixed reviews.
In the rush to criminalize brown bodies and politicize fear, we are witnessing racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim ...
The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon ...
President Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz as a functioning prison is a reflection of his political instincts and personal tastes, even as it is a long shot to come to fruition.
How did a facility constructed in only eight days come to become the center of a national controversy over human dignity? The ...
Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?
Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...