On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration ...

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Ochopee, Florida - At President Donald Trump's new migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, time has no discernible meaning. People detained there are barely able to see sunlight in the ...

Legal advocates and families of detainees are demanding the closure of the Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility amid mounting allegations of abuse and inhumane treatment. At a press ...

When Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” the much more widely used name for the South Florida Detention Facility, went into use in July to detain immigrants swept up in Donald Trump’s ambitiously cruel ...

In the middle of the night the Everglades are loud. The soundtrack of Florida’s swamplands is a constant call of cicadas. But an hour from downtown Miami there are almost no people. The narrow ...

Civil rights lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting ...

Is Alligator Alcatraz winding down, closing? Florida U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost visited the immigrant detention center May 26.