In June 1962, three inmates ingeniously escaped Alcatraz by crafting a lifeboat from prison raincoats. The escapees used stolen tools and dummy heads to outsmart guards and navigate to the prison roof ...

With the facility's future in flux, PolitiFact rounded up fact-checks of statements by DeSantis and Trump that miscast its ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention center constructed in 2025 in the Florida Everglades, could be on the verge of closing. Officials affiliated with the center notifi ...

Justo Betancourt was taken by ICE during what he thought was a regular check in where he would get a date for his next ...

A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency ...

Hayden Wilde headlines a deep field in San Francisco, but a wave of contenders will look to challenge his dominance over the ...

The closure comes amid escalating operating costs for the facility, which are now estimated to total nearly $1 billion.

T100 enforcer Hayden Wilde is relishing tackling the next five in the PTO rankings as the big guns head to iconic triathlon ...

“Alligator Alcatraz,” or the South Florida Detention Facility, has also been a costly endeavor, but DeSantis declared it a success and said that nearly 22,000 people who were not in the country ...

Governor Ron DeSantis' famed "Alligator Alcatraz" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding facility in the Florida swamp will "return to the Everglades" after it is no longer needed, a ...

Workers install a permanent Alligator Alcatraz sign. The facility is within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the central business district of Miami, in Collier County, Florida. , Florida, on ...