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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant detention center in the Florida ...
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The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ site once changed history. Now, it’s testing the law again

A patch of the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz once had a very different future. Back in the 1960s, it ...

At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Did a Detainee Just Faint or Need CPR?

Homeland Security says a detainee fainted. But other accounts say the man was unconscious. One witness said the guards did ...

Who runs Alligator Alcatraz? DeSantis and Trump administrations respond in court

One agreement submitted in federal court was amended on Wednesday and applied retroactively to cover the six weeks the ...

Florida updated agreement on handling detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ but a month after it opened

Florida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more ...

Critics of 'Alligator Alcatraz' argue it should be shuttered due to environmental concerns

An eight-hour hearing on the future of "Alligator Alcatraz" ended Wednesday with more questions than answers about who runs ...

A family's fishing trip ends with the dad at 'Alligator Alcatraz.' Here's their story

Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly ...
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2nd interfaith prayer vigil held outside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’; detainee says ‘conditions right now are very bad’

Dozens of people came together to hold an interfaith prayer vigil outside the gates of the detention center in the Florida<a ...