Within Prison Walls was a wild success, and for a short period it made Osborne the most prominent penal reformer in the ...

From major retrospectives to Indigenous art and Black Art Week, these Bay Area exhibitions offer plenty to see at museums and ...

Update 8/7/26: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Discovery Channel’s “Escape from Alcatraz” would premiere on Aug. 6. Discovery has not announced an official premiere date for ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Last summer, a symbol of President Donald Trump’s campaign against illegal immigration quickly appeared amid the vast Florida Everglades. Less than a year later, the detention ...

The bright blue sign that read ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ has been taken down and replaced with the original Dade-Collier Training and Transitional Airport sign and the gate is shut. Debbie Clark Wehking ...

A former California reserve deputy sheriff has been identified as the person who died after a pleasure boat carrying members of an extended family capsized in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay ...

“Alligator Alcatraz,” the remote Florida immigration detention center that faced harsh criticism for its conditions, is gone after Gov. Ron DeSantis said the facility has shut down last month. Aerial ...

The Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center in the Everglades has been officially closed and boarded up. Conservation group Friends of the Everglades is continuing a lawsuit to hold the ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — We’ve been covering “Alligator Alcatraz” — the controversial detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades — extensively over the past year. Immigration attorney Richard ...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference Thursday that the state's "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp is shutting down after less than a year in operation. It's a quiet ...

Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the families of once-detained immigrants. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the notorious detention center is being shuttered ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention center in the heart of the Florida Everglades, is officially shutting down. The ...