The prison on Alcatraz Island wasn't called 'The Rock' for nothing. (National Park Service) When I teach the Civil War, I frequently encounter surprised faces when students learn that California, so ...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Alligator Alcatraz, she found 32 men kept together and forced to share three toilets. “There’s a ...

Trump wants $152M to plan reopening Alcatraz as a modern federal prison, raising questions about cost, feasibility and the ...

The plan faces significant local political opposition and the dilapidated state of the site poses considerable logistical ...

President Donald Trump wants to reopen San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz Island as a modern federal prison and is requesting ...

Roxana was protesting outside the Krome immigrant detention center in Miami when she got the call that her husband was finally getting his freedom after five long months of "torture" and uncertainty ...

A federal judge issued a ruling Friday requiring the DeSantis administration and federal immigration officials to expand access for detainees to their lawyers at the Everglades detention facility, ...

FLORIDA, USA — A controversial immigrant detention center deep in the Florida Everglades is continuing to draw weekly protests — with some demonstrators traveling hours across the state to make their ...

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless ...

US President Donald Trump poses for a photo at the start of the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. President Trump is hosting a dozen right-wing ...

How many people are being held? As of mid-January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had some 73,000 people in detention, its highest number ever and an 81% increase from the same point in 2025. The ...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal "supermax" prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth ...