ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center built in the ...

The judge ordered that current detainees be transferred and that much of the lighting, fencing and other materials at the site be removed within 60 days.

A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before ...

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

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 ...

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

A federal judge in Florida ordered late Thursday that some of Alligator Alcatraz be shut down and barred the Sunshine State from bringing in more migrants to the detention facility in a blow to ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid ...

The president of Nebraska's correctional employees union said he "of course" has some concerns on prison capacity after the announcement of the "Cornhusker Clink.""We always make it work," he said.

Douglas County Commissioner Roger Garcia said the announcement hurt the Hispanic community saying, “it's not going to build relationships, it's going to do harm.” ...

The facility in Appleton has a capacity of 1,600 people, which would make it one of the nation’s largest immigration ...