Immigrants at the Florida detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz were kept in “small metal enclosures” for up to nearly two hours in what the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog ...
Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were ...
The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog is sharply criticizing conditions at the Florida immigration detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," finding that detainees at the ...
"You don't expect them to be used in countries that have reasonable rule of law standards," said Juan E. Méndez, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture ...
The controversial but now defunct Everglades migrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" did in fact employ punitive practices that presented "significant risks to detainee health and ...
A retired bishop and social justice advocate discusses conditions at Florida immigrant detention centers, with a call to end ...
WASHINGTON — A state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades failed to comply with a host of federal detention standards, creating cramped conditions and confining migrants in ...
The chain-link cages under white industrial tents have been emptied. The guards dismissed. The immigrants transferred out. But even though Alligator Alcatraz’s gates are closed, allegations of ...