The U.S. Government Accountability Office found Alligator Alcatraz cost almost three times higher than standard ICE detention centers.

The now-shuttered Florida immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” kept detainees in cages and failed to comply with most federal detention standards to provide basic human needs. An ...

A makeshift prison in the heart of the Florida Everglades has been emptied in the face of several lawsuits alleging inhumane and unconstitutional conditions and threats to a sprawling protected nature ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Florida's Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie shared Thursday the state has yet to be told to stop operations at Alligator Alcatraz. The update comes as the U.S.

After reports that the Trump administration and state of Florida are considering abandoning the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades, the Department of Homeland Security ...

The immigration detention center in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz has been vacated. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed that the detainees have been moved but declined to ...

WASHINGTON — Some immigrants detained at Florida’s now-shuttered “Alligator Alcatraz” were confined in outdoor cages only slightly larger than telephone booths for more than an hour at a time, ...

The high-security immigration detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades, widely known as "Alligator Alcatraz," is now completely empty of detainees, raising new questions about the facility's ...

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were ...

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WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Detainees at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center have been relocated to other facilities, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said ...