Be it a grandmother with three decades in the United States, or a Cuban man imprisoned for 17 years: experts say that no ...

Florida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more than a month after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ opened ...

1963: Alcatraz closes as a prison The prison on Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to continue operating, according to the Bureau of Prisons. It was nearly three times more expensive ...

Alcatraz is transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice to be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. During its era as a federal prison, the average inmate population was between 260 to 275 ...