Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alligator Alcatraz, the recently closed immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, is officially boarded up, ...

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

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

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a massive detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has risen almost overnight.

After nearly a year of controversy and several lawsuits, the notorious "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in Florida is officially shuttering. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' explanation ...

The detainees are gone. The buses are leaving. And according to an announcement from Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday, Florida’s controversial Everglades immigration detention center known as Alligator ...

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 ...

Florida Attorney General James Ufhmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists over his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of Everglades. OCHOPEE, Fla. -- Florida ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the recently closed immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, is officially boarded up, conservation group Friends of the Everglades reported in a Facebook post ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. -- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the ...