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“That runs the gamut from making arrests, investigating crimes, and doing police work, all the way up to guarding prisoners ...
Detainees claim lack of access to basic hygiene facilities, legal representation, and proper plumbing at the newly opened migrant facility in the Everglades.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is requesting remote video monitoring, weekly site condition reports and scheduled access to the ...
WESH 2 has confirmed people held over the past week in the Orange County jail have been transported to the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.
Another family of a migrant is denouncing conditions of lack of water, freezing cold tents and atrocious mosquitoes at the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” ...
The Florida Immigrant Coalition has commissioned a pair of billboards calling on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ...
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.
Fraga's account is one of several stories from inmates and attorneys about the detention facility’s challenges during its initial opening week.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said there would be no impacts to vegetation and there would be no paving or ...
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has made a request to access Alligator Alcatraz.In a post on ‘X’, she raised concerns about the environment,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...
A Florida bishop is criticizing recent public statements from public officials supporting a new detention facility for ...
The facility, dubbed by the administration as "Alligator Alcatraz," is located about 37 miles west of Miami at the site of the former Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, which was used for ...