The contested migrant detention center is the first of its kind in the US, but other states are interested in building similar sites of their own

Last month, during a visit to the Florida facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump joked that prisoners who attempted to escape would need to learn how to dodge alligators.

Alligator Alcatraz's future is in doubt. Behind the suffering it's caused is a long history of migrants being exploited in Florida.

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

Former corrections officer alleges ‘inhumane’ conditions prevail at Everglades detention center as DHS insists claims are ‘yet another attempt to smear ICE law enforcement’

The controversial immigration detention centre in Florida's Everglades, known as Alligator Alcatraz, has been ordered to close after being hit with a preliminary injunction by a federal judge.The temporary halt was ordered by US District Judge Kathleen Williams,

A federal judge heard arguments Monday but declined to make an immediate ruling about the legal conditions of detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz.”