Florida was promised more than $600 million to help pay for Alligator Alcatraz, but new federal reports questioning conditions and costs could leave state taxpayers holding the bill.

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

A new report by a congressional accountability watchdog found the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement squandered taxpayer dollars on “unsuccessful detention initiatives,” including the Everglades ...

They say an inspector’s report inaccurately characterized the size of the boxes, which they said were definitely used for punishment. Inspectors have confirmed the use of small metal enclosure at the ...

For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General report includes images of the “small metal enclosures.” Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General ...

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were subjected to inhumane daily conditions, an inspection of the facility found ...

Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas,” a ...

When federal investigators showed up unannounced at the sprawling pop-up prison in the Florida Everglades in January, they found something they had never seen at any other immigration detention center ...

A federal watchdog’s report on conditions at the immigrant detention center in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz has stirred fresh concerns about a planned ICE center on San Antonio's East Side.

Some detainees were held in the cages for up to two hours, the report stated DHS Office of Inspector General (2) A DHS report stated that detainees at a Florida facility were held in small metal cages ...

A surprise inspection found inhumane conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. Detainees were held in cramped cages, drank dirty water, and had limited access to showers and recreation.