The migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is closed, but much about it remains unresolved. There are lawsuits over detainees’ treatment, environmental claims over damage to protected ...

New signs are emerging that the controversial Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Florida Everglades may soon shut down, despite conflicting messages from state officials in recent weeks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is closed, but much about it remains unresolved. There are lawsuits over ...

Detainees at the now-closed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida were kept in “inhumane” living conditions that included lack of clean water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The men of Alligator Alcatraz lived in the equivalent of cages, drinking dirty water out of dirty cups and eating food stored at ...

Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics. The small metal enclosures some detainees were kept in for periods of time at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility known as ...

One aspect of the South Florida facility has drawn far less attention, though: the name itself, and the long history of associating alligators with racist ideas about people of color. I’m a historian ...

The architects of Alligator Alcatraz may not have consciously sought to invoke the history of “alligator bait” stereotypes. Yet historical symbols often outlive the contexts in which they were created ...