US EditionAlligator Alcatraz: an exercise in performative cruelty
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, AUG 6 – The facility, expected to hold up to 4,000 detainees, faces lawsuits over environmental damage and detainee rights amid political efforts to expand immigration detention.
- Alligator Alcatraz marks Florida’s newest immigration detention facility on a former airfield, housing over 900 immigrants in plastic tents deep in the Everglades.
- Amid the 2025 Republican primary, DeSantis pitched Florida and allocated $245 million to build a 3,000-bed prison using emergency powers, with FDEM in charge.
- Detainees report that water makes them sick, they had no hot water half the time, and on rainy days water pours into the tents.
- On June 27, Friends of the Everglades sued under NEPA; Kevin Guthrie promised attorney access by Monday, but NBC6 received no response by Wednesday.
- Against a backdrop of record ICE populations, lawmakers have made caging the displaced a bipartisan budget priority, reinforcing systemic control.
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A former worker named Lindsey tells us what 'Alligator Alcatraz' really looks like, how much she would be paid, and what happened after she got COVID.
“Oversized Kennel”: Ex–Alligator Alcatraz Worker Reveals Awful Details
Detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” are being kept in a “human-sized kennel,” according to a former corrections officer at Donald Trump’s wetland-themed concentration camp.In an exclusive interview with NBC6, Lindsey, who was identified by only her first name, said that people being held at the hastily constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades were being treated like animals. “It’s inhumane the way that they’re keeping the…
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Mario Gonzalez, CNN What was supposed to be a family visit to Florida to reunite with their brother and grieve for their mother's death ended up being a constant transfer through a network of immigration detention centers before arriving at the controversial "Alligator Alcatraz." Carlos González, who says he spent about eight days detained with his brother at the facility deep in the Everglades in South Florida, described…
Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Corrections Officer Describes ‘Inhumane’ Conditions: Like ‘An Oversized Kennel’
AP Photo/Evan Vucci A woman who worked at the ICE detention facility in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” says that the conditions there are miserable and “inhumane,” comparing the areas where detainees are kept to “an oversized kennel.” Alligator Alcatraz has been extremely controversial after multiple reports of abuses of detainees, hundreds of millions of dollars in lucrative contracts going to GOP donors and other allies of Florid…
Attorney describes process to see clients inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz'
Advocates of the Everglades went before a federal judge on Wednesday with the hopes they could halt the operation of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” On June 27, the organization Friends of the Everglades filed a lawsuit against the state and federal government, citing the National Environmental Policy Act, which they argue requires the government to analyze the environmental impact projects of this magnitude may have on the Everglades, a pro…
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