Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

Gov. Ron DeSantis awarded $20 million in no-bid contracts, including nearly $500,000 for an emergency radio system that was originally designated for disaster preparedness during the active hurricane ...

The state’s emergency rules allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend state laws and a competitive bidding process to award millions ...

Top Trump administration officials visited Alcatraz Thursday morning as part of the controversial plan to reopen the federal ...

U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI’S surprise visit to Alcatraz, in service of President Donald Trump’s idea to rebuild the shuttered prison there, was widely criticized by Bay Area political leaders ...

TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov.

The group has received reports this week that detainees from the island have been sent to the Florida facility and allege ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz, the infamous prison island that Trump has ...

A senior White House official said Friday that President Trump’s request to reopen Alcatraz at a reported $2 billion price ...

It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of ‘alligators and ...

It’s not clear how Critical Response Strategies landed the work or whether it previously handled managing a detention ...

Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility ‘don’t do it justice’ ...