These notorious prisons located throughout the U.S. can still be visited today for those who are drawn to the macabre and ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as "Alligator Alcatraz ...

Alligator Alcatraz is the migrant detention center near the Florida Everglades. New aerial video shows the "small city in the swamp." ...

In May, President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz Island as a prison for the nation's "most ...

Riley Gaines defended her decision to swim from Alcatraz to shore at 31 weeks pregnant, addressing backlash on her podcast ...

A prison cell with the effigy of an inmate in bed is displayed during a tour guide of the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, Ca., Monday, May 5, 2025.

After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his ...

Donald Trump’s plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been ...

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.

Trump continues to face backlash from his MAGA supporters over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. He ...

Newsweek spoke with the attorney of a detainee and the friend of another. Both described harrowing conditions at the remote ...

U.S. President Donald Trump proposed converting Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison, potentially costing $2 billion.