A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.

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.

The public needs clear, accurate language. The stakes are too high for us to play along with the Trump administration's ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected ...

The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

Nazi comparisons surge in response to aggressive immigrant detention and enforcement policies, as do rebukes that such ...

Noem Deflects "Alligator Alcatraz" Criticism with Historical Context Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem turned the tables on NBC host Kristen Welker on Sunday’s “Meet the ...

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...

Those historical crimes paved the way for a more recent example, the infamous concentration camps of the 1940s in which 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them native-born U.S. citizens, were ...

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...

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