Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month’s ...

Republican Florida Rep. Aaron Bean is introducing a bill Tuesday to intensify prison sentences for people who assault or ...

Dubbed the “No Cages in the Everglades Act,” the six-page bill was sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston ...

It’s not clear how Critical Response Strategies landed the work or whether it previously handled managing a detention facility. However, staffers from the firm have a visible presence at the center.

A tribal leader told Newsweek that he and members in the Big Cypress National Preserve of Florida, which is adjacent to the ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected ...

People held in Florida’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades sued the Trump and DeSantis administrations on ...

Seeking to expand Florida’s role in federal immigration enforcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2025 submitted the ...

Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion.

Neither President Donald Trump nor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can legally create a new system of immigration judges outside of ...

On Wednesday, four detained migrants and the law groups representing them filed the proposed class-action suit in the U.S. Southern District Court of Florida against the U.S. Department of Homeland ...

At least two people have been wrongly charged under a Florida law that outlaws people living in the U.S. illegally from ...