US EditionInside 'Alligator Alcatraz': Color-Coded Uniforms, 5:30 Am Breakfast and Strict Rules
The center operates amid lawsuits challenging its legality and environmental compliance, with a federal judge ordering closure over improper environmental review.
- On October 1, 2025, court filings made the handbook public, revealing that detainees at Alligator Alcatraz receive color-coded uniforms and wristbands and are segregated by risk.
- Built this summer by the State of Florida, the site is operated by private contractors and state agencies, prompting civil rights groups to argue it violates federal immigration detention law.
- Detainees' uniform shirts can never be removed in housing or recreation, and hands in waistbands are prohibited, with discipline for violations, the handbook states.
- Legal filings this week left the facility operating while appeals proceed after civil rights groups on Monday asked a federal judge in Fort Myers for an injunction to stop detainee holding.
- Detainees have reportedly been held for weeks without removal charges and some vanish from tracking systems, while Mark Saunders of The Nakamoto Group said all attorney meeting requests have been granted in four private rooms.
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Immigrants detained in a Florida facility known as “Alcatraz de los Caimans” receive color-coded uniforms and bracelets and are subsequently separated according to their criminal history and if they are considered as a risk of escape, according to a manual received by detainees.
Inside Alligator Alcatraz, where detainees’ uniform color is based on criminal history
Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands, then segregated based on their criminal history and whether they’re considered a flight risk, according to a handbook given to detainees. The handbook presents strict rules on hygiene and dress, portraying an environment inside the remote detention center that starkly contrasts with the de…
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where detainees' uniform color is based on criminal history
Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades are given color-coded uniforms and segregated based on criminal history and flight risk. That is according to a handbook made public as part of a lawsuit over attorney access…
Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz,' detainees must wear color-coded uniforms based on criminal history
Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades are given color-coded uniforms and segregated based on criminal history and flight risk. That is according to a handbook made public as part of a lawsuit over attorney access…
Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz': Color-Coded Uniforms, 5.30 Am Breakfast, Strict Rules
Detainees arriving at the immigration detention centre in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands and then segregated based on their criminal history and whether they're considered a flight.
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