The infamous Florida immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” can remain open, an appeals court ruled Tuesday ...

A Florida congresswoman described conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center as inhumane. The facility ...

Florida’s role in building the detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” let the federal government skip environmental ...

Claims of punishment and torture at Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center via a cage-like confinement space called "the box" are under investigation by two U.S. senators. The probe, started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signage outside Alligator Alcatraz on Sunday, August 17, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (D.A. Varela/dvarela@miamiherald.com) A federal ...

One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.” Garrett Shanley is a correspondent for the Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau, where he ...

Jose Dalai Gomez was arrested in November during a traffic stop in Winter Haven. Less than 48 hours later, he was sent to Alligator Alcatraz, where he was held for a month. Gomez, 43, said he would ...

Guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed migrant detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, causing injuries to their heads, shoulders and wrists, ...