Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Florida congresswoman condemned what she described as "inhumane conditions" inside Alligator Alcatraz after touring the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved detainees out of a controversial detention center in the Florida Everglades ...

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

An appeals court has paused one of the lawsuits challenging Alligator Alcatraz during the government shutdown The delay is the latest frustration in a case advocates say has been marked by ...

Aerial view of the runway on the remote Miami-Dade County airport that the state of Florida converted to the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp for immigration offenders. With the temporary facility ...

Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, is leading a fight against a new detainment center in the Big Cypress National Preserve. The group, along with the Center for Biological ...

News that the last detainee could leave the facility within days comes after a federal judge ordered the detention center to wind down operations.

"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 ...

An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open, an appeals court decided Tuesday, upholding its earlier decision to block a judge’s order for ...

Environmental groups in South Florida said their legal fight over Alligator Alcatraz will continue, even after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the facility was being closed down. Earthjustice, ...

Alligator Alcatraz, shown here in June, is located on an old landing strip that was initially built as part of an international airport planned in the 1970s and defeated by environmentalists. The land ...

A Florida congresswoman described conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center as inhumane. The facility, located in the Everglades, is under investigation by two U.S. senators ...