Future of Alligator Alcatraz hangs on 1 big question
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With Alligator Alcatraz running in the Everglades, the governor will turn an underused state prison into a second facility for those awaiting deportation.
Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.
Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.
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New York Magazine on MSN‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Worse Than You Realize
Erected on an abandoned airstrip known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the temporary tent city was thrown together in just eight days after Florida authorities presented the federal government with a “marketing pitch” inspired by President Donald Trump longing for the reopening of the original Alcatraz.
The government] is running roughshod over the most basic constitutional rights that people have when they are in government custody,” Eunice Cho, senior counsel with the ACLU’s National Prison Project,
The facility in Appleton has a capacity of 1,600 people, which would make it one of the nation’s largest immigration detention facilities.
After a hearing in federal court on Monday in Downtown Miami, civil rights attorneys said there was more clarity about the migrant detainees’ legal recourse while held in Alligator Alcatraz, in the Florida Everglades.
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Where is Indiana's 'Alligator Alcatraz'? About the prison Kristi Noem called 'Speedway Slammer'
The Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located at the former Grissom Air Force Base about 70 miles north of Indianapolis, can house up to 3,100 people. Annie Goeller, chief communications officer for IDOC, said part of the facility has not been filled because of a staffing shortage.
Forget GEO Group Stadium, protesters started a movement 12-years ago to make sure another name caught on where Florida Atlantic would play: "Owlcatraz."