The White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are encouraging Republican states across the nation to follow Florida's lead and install their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz" – a remote detention ...

President Trump said Sunday he is directing his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island off San Francisco, California. In a post on his Truth Social site ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...

Earlier this month, President Trump said he wants to reopen and expand Alcatraz prison in order to house "America's most ruthless and violent offenders." Trump has since directed administrative ...

Located near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz prison, also known as 'The Rock' or as the Californian island fortress in the San Francisco Bay, was once regarded as one of America's most ...

A temporary migrant detention site located deep in the Florida Everglades is quickly taking shape — and drawing mounting controversy. Dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida officials are racing ahead ...

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California on Thursday, just two months after President Trump ordered the reopening of the ...

President Donald Trump first pushed the idea last year, directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to reopen and expand Alcatraz to detain what he called ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has ...