Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much like the island prison in California that Republicans named it after. The detention center has an estimated annual cost of $450 million, according to a public database.

A federal judge late Monday dismissed portions of a lawsuit brought by “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees, handing the Trump administration a partial win in its pushback on allegations

As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people - most of them reverends, rabbis, pastors and people of assorted faiths - chanted in unison, "Shut it down" and "This is a preserve,

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

The Mass will mark the Rev. Frank O'Loughlin's 60th year as a priest, all of them spent serving farmworkers and immigrants across southern Florida.

Detained in the temporary detention center known as " Alligator Alcatraz ," he spent his time confined in a chain-link cage with another man, stuck in what his fiancee Sonia Bichara described as a legal purgatory -- unaware of why he was detained, where he might be sent, and how long he would be stuck in the controversial Florida facility.