MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Friday afternoon that the state has appealed a federal court ruling that would have severely limited operations at the state's immigrant ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

A state-run immigration detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, has been operating in Big Cypress National Preserve for six months. The facility is managed by the Florida Division of Emergency ...

Juan Carlos Chavez is the immigration reporter, covering immigration, diverse communities and the intersection with politics. He can be reached at jchavez@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of ...

The Miccosukee Tribe officials say they are moving forward with their legal battle against the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, arguing that Florida’s acceptance of ...

A federal judge in Florida decided on Thursday to reject a detained immigrant’s lawsuit seeking to close “Alligator Alcatraz” with his request for a preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Kyle ...

A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by a detainee at Florida’s state-run immigration detention center in the Everglades to stop the DeSantis administration from holding immigrants at ...

The newly alleged brutality at two Florida prisons might be customary in some third-world dictatorship. It was assumed to be intolerable in America. Reports from two respected organizations describe ...

Supervisor Matt Dorsey looked over at Mock Supervisor De’Mari Dunn, smiling, as Dunn gave a comment. Photo by Xueer Lu. Dec. 10. 2025. President Donald Trump has directed federal officials to turn ...

When Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” the much more widely used name for the South Florida Detention Facility, went into use in July to detain immigrants swept up in Donald Trump’s ambitiously cruel ...

Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the “box” at the migrant detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz could amount to torture. The human rights ...