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Judge orders closure of Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz, halts prisoner arrivals

Last month, during a visit to the Florida facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump joked that prisoners who attempted to ...

Will Alligator Alcatraz close? Here's a look inside the controversial detention center

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 ...

The future of Alligator Alcatraz hangs on one big question

The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

'It’s like you’re dead alive': Families, advocates allege inhumane conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator ...
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The Next Alligator Alcatraz Could Be in Your State

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

Next ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center likely headed to SW Nebraska

Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center appears to be headed for the ...

Federal court hearing about legal conditions of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees ends without immediate ruling

A federal judge heard arguments Monday but declined to make an immediate ruling about the legal conditions of detainees at ...
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ACLU Attorney: Rights of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees being violated at detention center

The government] is running roughshod over the most basic constitutional rights that people have when they are in government ...
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Alligator Alcatraz closing after judge ruling hailed as 'major win for America' by Trump critics

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 ...