SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alcatraz Island, one of San Francisco's best-known tourist destinations, is closed this week while crews repair the island's dock, according to the National Park Service. The ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The infamous Florida immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” can ...

A status conference Monday, April 13, with the United States District Court Middle District of Florida in Fort Myers was to check in on progress of a preliminary injunction for Alligator Alcatraz.

Alcatraz Island, one of the San Francisco area’s most popular tourist attractions, closed abruptly Monday, April 20, 2026, and will remain closed for at least a week. The former prison known for an ...

A Florida congresswoman described conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center as inhumane. The facility, located in the Everglades, is under investigation by two U.S. senators ...

Guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed migrant detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, causing injuries to their heads, shoulders and wrists, ...

One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.” Garrett Shanley is a correspondent for the Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau, where he ...

Alligator Alcatraz detainee Raiko Lopez Morffi appeared Friday on a video call with his lawyer sporting a black eye from a beating delivered by guards after the immigration detention center’s phones ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- President Donald Trump is asking Congress for $152 million to launch his plan to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. The request can be found in the 2027 budget proposal that the ...