Florida’s attorneys said the state took a risk in building the site, knowing that federal reimbursement may never come.

Florida emergency officials say the fire does not threaten the state-run immigration detention facility called “Alligator ...

Clint Eastwood’s prison break film that’s based on a true story, Escape From Alcatraz, will soon come to a free streamer.

Bad Bunny's joyful Super Bowl halftime show, a group of monks walking hundreds of miles for peace, protesters singing in the streets.

Alcatraz has joined the Active Shooter Prevention Project (ASPP), a U.S.-based initiative that develops strategies to reduce risks in schools.

Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump's second term, at least partly because a new policy ...

Without warning, public debate or coordination with the Senate, the Florida House late Thursday released an austere $113.6 billion spending plan for next year that does not ...

Attorneys say detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” still struggle to reach their lawyers, despite state claims that access problems are fixed. On Thursday, two lawyers filed ...

A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga. There have been many ...

NBC is heading for an island getaway. Perhaps best known as the prison that housed Al Capone for nearly half a decade, Alcatraz Island has seen many uses over the years. Originally set aside in 1850 ...