"You don't expect them to be used in countries that have reasonable rule of law standards," said Juan E. Méndez, a former ...

DHS's internal watchdog is sharply criticizing conditions in a Florida immigration detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," finding detainees at the now-closed facility were held in "cramped ...

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 ...

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

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

A South Florida activist whose father was detained at the state-run immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” confronted Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar over her support of the facility, as a ...

In a report published Monday, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general found that some detainees of the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility in Florida were confined to ...

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees were held in small metal cages, federal report says - Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — ...

Inspectors said Florida's other major detention facility could hold similar concerns on standards and oversight.

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were ...

The new report cited 'significant risks' to migrants' health and safety at the Everglades immigration detention center.

Aerial view of the runway and structures including gigantic tents built at the recently opened migrant detention center, “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and ...