BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Florida—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sold the public on the detention camp known as Alligator Alcatraz as an efficient and cost-effective way to deal with a major public ...

Alcatraz was built to be the prison nobody could escape, surrounded by freezing water, strong currents, and one of the toughest security systems in America. But in 1962, three inmates pulled off an ...