President Trump visited Florida on Tuesday to tour what's been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial migrant detention ...

When you make merch out of suffering — like the GOP is doing with Alligator Alcatraz — it makes it easier to get away with ...

According to The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Alcatraz officially closed as a federal penitentiary on Mar. 21, 1963, after 29 years. This shutdown happened for surprising reasons, as one of ...

Alaska has joked about setting up a “Bear Alcatraz” to help the Trump administration detain more illegal migrants — as the ...

Gov. Henry McMaster’s office said it was open to a SC “Alligator Alcatraz” after DHS director said several governors ...

Alcatraz, as an island prison, shut down in 1963 in part due to its high operating costs. Ferrying food, supplies, inmates, and employees across the water every day costs a lot of money, apparently.

The problem is that Alcatraz has now been a tourist attraction for longer than it was a federal penitentiary, from 1934 to 1963. First the site of a fort in the 1850s, the island soon thereafter ...

Why was the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary created? The U.S. Army used the island as a fort starting in 1850 to protect the San Francisco Bay during the California Gold Rush.

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist the deteriorating facility should be reopened.

Back in 1973, as KQED was preparing for its now infamous annual televised fundraising auction, a call was sent out to the public. “Dear artists,” it read. “Please send us artwork that we can sell so ...

The garden, in the prison’s main lawn, is now one of 12 prison gardens run by Insight Garden Program, a Berkeley nonprofit that uses the green spaces to provide vocational training and ...