Future of Alligator Alcatraz hangs on 1 big question
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and as more
With Alligator Alcatraz running in the Everglades, the governor will turn an underused state prison into a second facility for those awaiting deportation.
Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.
Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.
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New York Magazine on MSN‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Worse Than You Realize
Erected on an abandoned airstrip known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the temporary tent city was thrown together in just eight days after Florida authorities presented the federal government with a “marketing pitch” inspired by President Donald Trump longing for the reopening of the original Alcatraz.
The Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located at the former Grissom Air Force Base about 70 miles north of Indianapolis, can house up to 3,100 people. Annie Goeller, chief communications officer for IDOC, said part of the facility has not been filled because of a staffing shortage.
Upon emerging from sprawling facility, Democrats and Republicans provided vastly different accounts of what they saw within.
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Attorneys warn of ‘black hole’ for detainees with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ case due for hearing Monday
Attorneys representing detainees held at the controversial makeshift immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” are in federal court Monday seeking to allow detainees to meet with attorneys.