Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the reopening of the infamous federal prison.

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a federal prison at President Donald Trump's direction.

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

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.