CBS News Miami investigates the cost of Alligator Alcatraz after its shutdown

On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration ...
KARE 11

Trump seeks $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as a prison

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed restoring Alcatraz to a "state-of-the-art secure prison facility" in his 2027 budget released Friday. Trump wants to allocate $152 million to cover the ...
NBC Los Angeles

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...
Popular Mechanics

Three Men Built a Homemade Lifeboat to Escape Alcatraz—and Set Off the Wildest Prison Break in U.S. History

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 ...
IGN

Out of Alcatraz: Read the Entire First Issue of the Prison Escape Thriller

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a ...
News Nation on MSN

Environmental groups sue to block ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A coalition of environmental groups on Friday sued over Trump administration plans to build a new detention center in the ...