"I think they really want to shut the doors and walk away and pretend it never happened," one attorney said.

On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration detention center that was the subject of numerous lawsuits as well as allegations ...

After reports that the Trump administration and state of Florida are considering abandoning the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades, the Department of Homeland Security ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has avoided talking about both topics with opponents calling him "the most corrupt ...

The controversial Everglades facility was quickly opened during Trump's first year in office and received numerous complaints about its apparent inhumane conditions and encroachment on the local ...

A controversial Florida detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" is being permanently shut down. Florida taxpayers may be responsible for the center's high operational costs and environmental ...

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OCHOPEE, Fla. — Alligator Alcatraz is reportedly on the brink of shutting down for good nearly a year after the facility opened. The fate of the embattled immigration detention center is in flux.

MIAMI — All detainees at an immigration detention center in an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S.

Ricardo Quintana Chávez was arrested by police for selling ceviche on a Florida beach without a permit last summer. He was ...