TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Last summer, a symbol of President Donald Trump’s campaign against illegal immigration quickly appeared amid the vast Florida Everglades. Less than a year later, the detention ...

"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 ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis' rebuke of an audit of Alligator Alcatraz show him backtracking on past comments and making claims industry analysts dispute.

Florida’s governor is seeking to downplay the DHS’ findings about the treatment of immigrant detainees at his state’s ...

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

Florida was promised more than $600 million to help pay for Alligator Alcatraz, but new federal reports questioning conditions and costs could leave state taxpayers holding the bill.

Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who were held at Florida’s makeshift detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, were briefly held in small metal enclosures for “periods ranging from several minutes ...

Alligator Alcatraz is reportedly on the brink of shutting down for good nearly a year after the facility opened. Florida Gov.

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 ...

The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump ...

Inspectors found the Florida facility did not comply with a variety of national detention standards related to medical care, food service, personal hygiene, and recreation.