military prison

It was rebuilt in the early 20th century as a military prison.

Soon after, U.S. officials also began using it as a military prison.

Originally a naval defence fort, Alcatraz was rebuilt in the early 20th Century as a military prison.

After the Trump administration expelled a man by mistake and refused to bring him back; after the president promised to send asylum-seekers to a military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and then did; after the White House announced, fittingly, that only Caucasians from South Africa would be welcome as refugees — after all that, a majority of white Americans are telling pollsters that they like what they see.

The George W. Bush administration went on to hold upwards of 800 men and boys in the U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay naval base without charge, access to counsel, or judicial review.