A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.

The contested migrant detention center, the first of its kind in the US, will be shut down because it's too expensive ...

Florida is expected to wind down its “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility sometime this summer, according to a source familiar with the planning. Vendors at the site were told Tuesday that ...

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A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.

Florida's Alligator Alcatraz ICE holding facility will shut down as permanent detention sites open, with the state citing massive operational costs.

Good morning and happy Friday. The days of the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center could be coming to an end. Gov. RON DESANTIS confirmed during a press conference in Lakeland on Thursday ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention center constructed in 2025 in the Florida Everglades, could be on the verge of closing. Officials affiliated with the center notifi ...

Since its closure in 1963, Alcatraz Prison has become the stuff of legend. The seemingly inescapable federal penitentiary on a California island surrounded by frigid and powerful currents gained ...

So far, the start of the budget special session has been anything but typical. Committees are barely meeting and, if they are, only for a few minutes, with some of the biggest questions left behind ...